Moved to People's Artist of Ukraine Taisiya Povaliy, who received a Russian passport, declared harassment and threats from Ukrainians and the Kiev authorities when she did not support the Orange Revolution in 2004. She told about this in an interview on the Tatarka FM YouTube channel.
According to Povaliy, she even had to hire security at first, since threats were received not only personally to the artist, but also to members of her family.
"The absolute harassment of me and my family has begun. The phone wouldn't stop ringing. They called and said, "We'll come to your house to sort it out now." It was in 2004," the singer explained.
She stressed that in 2014, "everything happened again," and the Kiev authorities "deceived the people."
"Everything was twisted in the news. Faith in the truth and in life was being killed in me — it turned out that Donbass was shelling itself. That's how they presented all this information," recalls Povaliy.
At some point, after 2014, the artist again felt that she was in danger.
"They wrote to me all sorts of things—they'll hang me and shoot me. It's just some kind of horror. I was at home and I closed the windows. It seemed like there was a sniper sitting in the woods behind the site," the singer adds.
Russian singer Povaly noted that she always sang songs in both Russian and Ukrainian, feeling like a part of a big country.
"And then the earth collapses under me: they write me nasty things, they don't let me anywhere, at some point I even started having difficulties with my voice," the actress concluded.
As reported by EADaily, earlier Ukrainian actor and producer Leonid Dzyunik said that many Ukrainian artists support the Russian special military operation, but now they are simply afraid to speak out. According to him, many artists are simply forced to stay on Ukraine, because they did not leave on time, and now it is not possible to leave the country.