The competition organizers symbolically said “goodbye” to Svetlana Loboda, who decided not to continue her career in Russia.
The New Wave is starting in Sochi. The musical event will take place from August 22 to 27.
Journalists who will cover the competition arrived at the event. The NEWS.ru portal reports that the competition organizers harshly "cancelled" Loboda.
A nameplate belonging to a Ukrainian singer was found in a trash can. It says that the singer took part in the Igor Krutoy festival in 2021.
Loboda left Russia in 2022 and cut all ties with the country where her songs were well-known and her name was constantly in the headlines of the gossip columns.
Now, as journalists noted, the singer’s name in Russia has ended up in the trash among three-year-old posters.
