{"id":113946,"date":"2021-04-09T11:03:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T11:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2021\/apr\/09\/russia-eurovision-candidate-manizha-takes-on-the-haters"},"modified":"2021-04-09T11:03:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T11:03:26","slug":"i-wont-allow-myself-to-be-broken-russias-eurovision-candidate-manizha-takes-on-the-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/09\/i-wont-allow-myself-to-be-broken-russias-eurovision-candidate-manizha-takes-on-the-haters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I won\u2019t allow myself to be broken\u2019: Russia\u2019s Eurovision candidate Manizha takes on \u2018the haters\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The singer\u2019s fight against domestic violence and homophobia and her body-positive posts on Instagram have led to a torrent of abuse \u2013 some from very powerful people<br><\/p><p>Russia\u2019s 2021 Eurovision candidate breezes into a conference room, Channel One documentary film crew in tow, offering a simple tea of mint leaves brewed in hot water. \u201cOn days like today, I want something calming,\u201d Manizha says, pouring two cups, as a boom mic hovers over us. No pressure.<\/p><p>The Tajikistan-born singer, who will perform her feminist ballad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l01wa2ChX64\">Russian Woman<\/a> next month at the much-loved, much-mocked song contest in Rotterdam, is the target of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/russias-eurovision-entry-to-be-investigated-for-lyrcs\">fiery conservative backlash <\/a>for her foreign roots and her lyrics attacking female stereotypes.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/mar\/11\/uks-2021-eurovision-entry-revealed-embers-by-james-newman\">UK's 2021 Eurovision entry revealed: Embers by James Newman<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2021\/apr\/09\/russia-eurovision-candidate-manizha-takes-on-the-haters\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2021\/apr\/09\/russia-eurovision-candidate-manizha-takes-on-the-haters\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer\u2019s fight against domestic violence and homophobia and her body-positive posts on Instagram have led to a torrent of abuse \u2013 some from very powerful peopleRussia\u2019s 2021 Eurovision candidate breezes into a conference room, Channel One documenta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,471,17926,6,346,17928,24,17927,3112,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113947,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113946\/revisions\/113947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}