The lack of big song And music festivals in Crimea is connected with the fear of artists to fall under the punishment, And this is regrettable, said on Thursday correspondents singer Iosif Kobzon.
in July of last year, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Latvia has made in the "black list" of persons banned from entering the country, the names of Joseph Kobzon, Oleg Gazmanov And Alla Pavlova Perfilova, popular by his stage name Valeria, in connection with their statements about the events in Ukraine And the position on the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation. Later Kobzon was also included in the "black list" of the European Union And Canada as a face, as if participating in destabilizing the situation in Ukraine.
"I regret to say that in Yalta is not carried out such major festivals, which were held earlier. You know, for whatever reasons - fear of punishment, which I'm not, because that coated them from head to toe, " said Kobzon.
He said that in Soviet times in Yalta held large festival " Crimean dawns ", in which He himself participated.
"Artists today because of the market economy have earned a lot of money, bought real estate in Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria. Miami just speaks Russian. And fear of punishment, no one wants to go to hot spots. But this obscurantism succeed And Crimea will become as attractive, " said the singer.
in the past year Ukraine has banned the entry of a number of Russian artists, among them singer Joseph Kobzon. In February 2015 Kobzon received the title of people's artist of the LPR people's artist of the DNR And was made an honorary citizen of DNR.
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