Ukraine’s Intelligence agency, the SBU, will probe Armenian singer Artsvik Harutyunyan in order to find out if they had ever violated the country’s laws, the SBU Speaker Yelena Gitlyanskaya said.
"We should investigate all contestants to find out if they had ever violated the law the way the Russian contestant did," the member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament), adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister Anton Gerashchenko said.
He confirmed that he had earlier emphasized the need to scrutinize all contestants, including Armenian singer Artsvik Harutyunyan, who, according to the Ukrainian authorities, might have visited Crimea, TASS reported.
As reported earlier, the Ukrainian intelligence service, the SBU, slapped a three-year entry ban on Russian Eurovision contestant Yulia Samoilova, citing her performance at a festival in Crimea on June 27, 2015. Ukraine’s authorities say that by performing in Crimea, Samoilova violated the Ukrainian government’s regulation dated June 4, 2015, which stipulates that foreign citizens should receive special permission to enter Crimea.
