A Russian justice has sentenced the winner of a beauty contest for married women in Crimea for having broadcast a video where she performs a Ukrainian patriotic song, the police of this annexed peninsula said on Tuesday.
In the video released in September on social media, two young women, including Miss Crimea 2022, Olga Valeeva, 34, sing the song a capella Chervona Kalinaconsidered by the Russian authorities as the anthem of Ukrainian nationalists.
The two young women, born in 1987 and 1989, were found guilty of having discredited the Russian army and sentenced: one to ten days in prison and the other to a fine of 40,000 rubles (680 euros).
On September 10, another video shot at a wedding party in southern Crimea, where guests were singing Chervona Kalinaearned fines and penalties ranging from 5 to 15 days in prison to its organizers and participants.
These incidents have provoked the ire of Crimean Governor Sergei Aksionov, who has promised to open criminal investigations against those who sing Ukrainian songs or chant pro-Ukrainian slogans.