The participation of Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest is an ordeal. After massive criticism of the planned performances in Russia in the preliminary rounds, the winner will not be going to Tel Aviv.
Singer Maruv
Actually, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) will be a purely musical competition without policy. This claim has failed in the Ukraine in this year will be particularly spectacular. The results of the national preliminaries were thrown on Board and the participation of Ukraine at the ESC final in may in Tel Aviv is called into question. It could be that the Eastern European country has to cancel for the second Time after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, the participation in the singing competition.
An Ultimatum to the preliminary rounds, the winner
The bombshell came late Monday afternoon. The competent public broadcasting station “UA:a Social Mowlennja” said that it had to be the winner of the national preliminaries, the artist Maruv, not some. There are “signs of a politicisation” of the competition. How it should go, was initially unclear.
The 27-year-old Maruv won in the preliminary round on may 23. February. With your stresses provocatively presented the title of “Siren Song” (siren song) got the most votes from both the Jury and the spectators of the competent public broadcasting station.
Fatal for Maruv that means in real life, Anna Korsun, and from the Russian-speaking province in the Southeast of Ukraine dates back to, their scheduled performances in Russia. For mid-April, her first Solo is announced-concert in St. Petersburg. An artist of the Ukraine represents the ESC, should not in front of the “Aggressor”, as the Ukrainian Parliament, Russia has classified to occur, so the criticism. Especially in social media there is a growing wave of indignation. The fact that the rights to the “Siren Song” belong to the Russian Label Warner Music Russia, has sparked a controversy.
With the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, the critics received prominent support. This story has not yet ended, tweeted Kyrylenko. Also, the Ministry of culture was critical, distanced, however, from any influence. The responsible station was Maruv at the weekend, a kind of Ultimatum: to be able to Ukraine at the ESC represented, had to agree to the artist within 48 hours of a contract with additional clauses.
What is in it, as published in the Maruv in your profile in Facebook. You should commit to make any appearances in Russia and ensure to get the rights to the song transferred. Also, you should not improvise on stage, to have it discussed beforehand, and not with journalists without the consent of the sender to speak. In the case of infringement is high the threat of fines. All the costs for the appearance to wear them. “I see this as a clear attempt to move me to a participation in the ESC-2019, as a representative of my country to cancel,” wrote Maruv and agreed, however, future performances in Russia, to cancel.
Criticism of the Ukrainian ESC-organizer
Scene connoisseurs as the singer Oleksandr Ponomaryov, who has represented the Ukraine in 2003, the first time ESC participation, criticize the organizers. You would not have to worry in advance that such a Situation as with Maruv emerging, said Ponomarev, in a DW interview. “Otherwise, it looks a little messy, particularly from a European perspective,” says the artist.
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Similar allegations are also the well-known Kiev producer Volodymyr Bebeschko. “You would have been on time to the candidates according to their nationality, concerts in Russia and the Crimea-affiliation question,” said Bebeschko of the DW. The case Maruv have led to a “political provocation” and a split in the society, so Bebeschko. Maruv have won the “honest” and should go to Tel Aviv, you will find Bebeschko. If the artist cancels their participation, then the Ukraine out of this year’s competition should get off. This now seems likely.
Relationship to Russia as a “Gretchen’s question”
The dispute Maruv is not an isolated case. So it turned out in the preliminary round, that other singer has a Russian passport, and in Russia, as she said, “at home”, had occurred. Still greater is the controversy surrounding the Duo’s “Anna Maria”, two in the Crimea-born twin sisters, whose parents still live on the annexed Peninsula, and high-ranking Offices under the new power-holders. There is a lot of outrage, in an Interview, the two singers had on the question of who Crimea belonged to, a kind of key question of modern Ukraine, evasive replied.
It is not the first Time that the consequences of the annexation of Crimea to the ESC overshadow. In 2017, the Ukraine, the Russian artist Julia Samojlowa refused entry to the final in Kiev, because they had previously occurred without the commitment of Kiev on the annexed Peninsula, for Ukraine, a severe violation of the frontier. Russia said the participation of all.
The acting head of the Ukrainian public broadcasting, Zurab Alasanija, rejected criticism of the organisers of the national ESC preliminaries. The fact was that almost all of this year’s finalists had strong Connections to Russia, wrote Alasanija on Facebook. It was “dangerous” and a sign that the Ukrainian cultural scene and especially the music business was more connected with Russia than many in the Ukraine, aware and loving. And despite the ongoing “war that Russia is waging against Ukraine”.
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