Re: [politics] Russian singer Zemfira has deleted all songs from her website except for the one she sings in Ukrainian

From: Michael Kulyk ([email protected])
Date: Sat Mar 01 2014 - 23:51:22 EST


http://zemfira.ru

On Mar 1, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Michael Kulyk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Russian singer Zemfira has deleted all songs from her website except for the one she sings in Ukrainian.
>
> On the 1st of March Russian singer Zemfira has deleted all the information from her website. Now there is only a video of her performing a Ukrainain song 'Vidpusty' ('Let me go') originally performed by a famous Ukrainian rock band 'Okean Elzy'.
>
> This video recording was made in 2008 and she says she performs it in support of Ukrainian artists: "There is more money and devices in Russia but there is more soul in Ukraine. Today we have to show that we are a nice people, not to start a war".
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> This video was published on her website after the Russian State Parliament has approved Putin's decision to use the military forces on the territory of Ukraine.
>
> Later Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, the frontman of the Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy wrote on his twitter: "Thank you Zemfira. Thank you friend".
>
> http://tvrain.ru/articles/zemfira_udalila_so_svoego_sajta_vse_krome_pesni_na_ukrainskom_jazyke-364140/?fb_action_ids=498503763604948&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=feed_opengraph&action_object_map=%7B%22498503763604948%22%3A217946835072214%7D&action_type_map=%7B%22498503763604948%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D



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