it was inspired by the 60s, so it's me jamala, smile, they sound a bit like the 60s. oh, 1944, it was written in 2015, when crimea was occupied, and i was so sad, i was so depressed. i remember my great-grandmother nazilkhan, for me she was like an image of my consciousness, she was such a bright person. and it's like she asked me to release her soul, release this story and release thousands of souls. this is a story about 1944 about deportation. there is no information about the crimean tatars, thousands of people were killed. when i wrote this song, i thought: "oh my god, no, it's too much, it's too sad, i'm not ready for it." to sing, she waited a whole year for the national selection for eurovision. i decided that if you have a story, if you have something to say to your audience, to your listeners, you should do it. i have three minutes to live it. to see more meaning in the eurovision winners, they sought to connect through political and... mala holds this note at the climax of the song, it seems to release all these emotions, dispossession, suffering and trauma

there are many voices of ukrainians who have been condemned to silence for a long time, and jamala isvoice that brings other voices to the fore, i think that she is absolutely the voice of ukraine that we should all listen to today. we fight not just for our territory, for our home, for freedom, for europe, we fight for democracy, can music stop war, i think it can, we can, because we are united by the love of life. to light, to beauty. take me to a place where there's no more head cry, take me to a place where people are fighting fighting fighting. take it to a place where we are free to live our lives holding to hold hope for the future going up the ocean that it fs away our team. there are discounts on vitamin d3, d3 max 10% at the pharmacy. travel book pam and savings. there are 15% discounts on karsil in podorozhnyk pam and oskad pharmacies. vasyl zima's big broadcast. this is the great ether, my name is vasyl zima, and we are starting. two hours of air time. two hours of your time. we will discuss many important topics today. two hours to find out. about the war, now we will tal

singer jamala, composer karmela tsepkolenko, artist andriy yermolenko, authors of the play konotopska witch, ivan uryvskyi, and tetiana were also laureates of this award. chuk, susanna, as well as writer and soldier yaryna chornoguz, poet and soldier dmytro lazutkin. dmytro lazudin joined our broadcast. i congratulate you, dmytro, poet, tv presenter, military man, and we have known you as a military man recently, and we include you in our broadcast. i congratulate you on this award, you received it for a poetry collection, a bookmark in the literature category. what are these feelings and were you ready for this? my congratulations, really the feeling is incredible, it 's not that it was a super surprise for me, the very submission of my book for this award was amazing, because i was in a tent in the army with 20 of my comrades -in-arms, we were warming ourselves under the burguzyki far away, and they called me , they say that there is such an idea to submit you to shevchenkivsk, i forgot... about this award this year, to be honest, because, well, there were such events, at first our

. they did not know this before edif, obviously not, and the same thing happens with this work of jamala and it is about a small people, because there are people, there are many millions as ukrainians, they can immediately offer several such cultural attempts in literature, in song, in the visual arts, when it comes to a small nation, then such an achievement, i think, is simply worth not only the shevchenko prize, but at least our awareness of its scale . problems, yes, here, and so that we you didn't, uh, we already touched on other topics, before the end of our conversation, i will honestly tell you that in any case, every anniversary of shevchenko is an opportunity in one way or another to think about the fact that he foresaw this entire situation, and this is something that the russians will never be able to... keep silent about, because you remember that president reagan read lines from the caucasus when he met with ukrainians, with american ukrainians in the white house, and these very lines, from the moldovan to finn is silent in all languages, because goodness, now there is no a

there, and for the last few years, everything is completely different. it looks like when i look that jamala has the shevchenko prize, that andriy yermolenko has the shevchenko prize, that dmytro lazutkin has the shevchenko prize, then i say finally, these are the shevchenko days , that’s exactly why i congratulate you, but what has changed there, just other people have come, does the shevchenko award finally correspond to its essence, well, the committee has really changed, now it is headed by yevhen nyschuk and, accordingly, the kulish minister of culture and now it's a different team, well, to what extent. i understand, again, i am not part of the process, for sure, but it is clear that at the award ceremony at least i had the opportunity to talk with the members of the committee, maybe for the first time in history in general, now that's all and the ceremony and those people who were awarded, celebrated, all this is contained in one concept, the concepts are quite clear, the concepts are clear to a country that is in a state of war, that is struggling in difficult times. and which does n

they did not know this before edif, obviously not, and the same thing happens with ... this work of jamalaut a small nation, because there are people there, there are many millions like ukrainians, they can immediately offer several such attempts at cultural literature, in song, in visual arts. when it comes to a small nation, i think that such an achievement is worth not only the shevchenko prize, but at least our awareness of the scale of the task, so that we... do not touch on other topics with you before the end of our conversation, i i will tell you honestly that in any case every anniversary of shevchenko is an opportunity to think in one way or another about the fact that he foresaw this whole situation, and this is something that the russians will never be able to keep quiet, because you remember that president reagan read... lines from the caucasus, when he met with ukrainians, with american ukrainians in the white house, and these very lines, from the moldovan to the finn in all languages, everything is silent, because alas, now there is neither a moldovan nor a finn, but russia

chernov and vasylisa stepanenko were awarded for a series of... serials about the siege of mariupol, jamala awarded, she was included in the list of leaders, she received the woman in arts award, she was also awarded an award for the album kirim, karmela tsepkolenko, tsepkolenko, i'm sorry, the composer also received an award, in the theater arts category, the director and producer were awarded ivan uryvskyi for the performance of the konotop witch. in addition to his productions, ivan oryvskyi became famous this year due to a scandal regarding the production of ivan karpenko's play the bad landlord, where he changed the name of the hero zelenskyi to zaluskyi, and many of the audience perceived this as a manifestation of censorship. the artist andriy yarmolenko, the author of the series of works ukrainia, was also awarded in the visual art category in this award nomination. and these are the results of this year's appointment of the shevchenko prize. dear friends, let's go to... and before we go to another break, one more the main thing, it is important, we collected 41 00 with you this mor