The European Broadcasting Union has confirmed it had no objections to Jamala's song "1944", which will represent Ukraine at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden's Stockholm.
“The Reference Group of the European Broadcasting Union has concluded that the title and the lyrics of the song “1944” do not contain any political statements and don’t breach the rules of the contest,” Jamala wrote on her Facebook account.
As reported, Jamala won the national selection for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.
Her song is about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from the territory of the Crimean peninsula in 1944 and is written in both English and Crimean-Tatar languages.
Earlier Russian politicians accused Ukraine of politicizing the song. In particular, member of the Russian parliament Vadim Dengin called on the organizers of the Eurovision song contest to exclude the song “1944” from the contest, as it was allegedly aimed at “offending Russia.”
