The Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra, which won Eurovision this year, appealed to the organizers of the Sea Dance Festival in Montenegro with a request to cancel the performance of Russian DJ Nina Kravitz. If this is not done, the musicians promise not to take part in the event.. The corresponding statement appeared in the “Stories” of the group on Instagram..
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Sea Dance Festival - a festival that will be held from August 26 to 28 in Montenegro, it is one of the projects of the organizers of the Serbian festival EXIT. On August 6, the festival published a poster with a breakdown by day. It follows that on August 28, the Kalush Orchestra should perform together with Nina Kravitz.
On August 7, " If Kravitz remains on the Sea Dance Festival billboard, the Kalush Orchestra promise to cancel their performance.
Look at this post on Instagram.
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Nina Kravitz is a Russian producer, DJ and singer who was accused of sympathizing with the president of the aggressor country Vladimir Putin. So, at the Coachella festival shortly after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Kravitz performed with a cardboard figure of a Russian autocrat.
After the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the DJ did not directly oppose the aggression. On February 26, she posted a video in which she wrote the word " And on May 17, Kravitz wrote a post in which she stated that she “does not understand the politics and processes that she creates in social media” and does not “consider it necessary to discuss what is happening on social media, as this can increase the degree of hatred and does not contribute to.
At the end of May, Nina Kravitz was excluded from the line-ups of three festivals: The Crave in the Netherlands, Movement Music Festival in the USA, and PollerWiesen in Germany.