Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko is heaping public praise on Ukrainian singer Jamala, after her surprise win Saturday over a Russian entry in the wildly popular Eurovision song contest.
Poroshenko, writing on Twitter, said he personally congratulated the 33-year-old performer, whose winning song, “1944,” lamented the Soviet wartime deportation of ethnic Tatars from the Crimean peninsula.
“YES!!! An unbelievable performance and victory,” he tweeted in Ukrainian. “A heartfelt thank you from all of Ukraine, Jamala!
“The truth, as always, has prevailed,” Poroshenko added in a subsequent tweet.
Many analysts interpreted the performance as a swipe at present-day Russia, which annexed Crimea in …read more
Source: Voice of America
