Eurovision Song Contest winner Jamala has been awarded the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine in Kyiv following her weekend victory at the competition with her “1944” song about war-time deportations of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union.
Ukrainian politicians, including President Petro Poroshenko, who handed the singer the award on Monday, have hailed the win, one of the most controversial in the contest’s history. Moscow said the competition had been hijacked by politics.
Jamala, who is of Crimean Tatar descent, had drawn parallels in interviews to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, which provoked Western condemnation of Moscow and was opposed by …read more
Source: Voice of America