dap-addict wrote:Wiska got it 2014 after Russian occupation of Crimea.
Now 2022 Nicole Black needs it for her citizens position against dictatorship.
She can't return to Russia!
Please help her stay!
Please sign requests to Czech government as soon as they are ready.
How did the Wiska situation play out? Was she Ukrainian Crimean, and when Crimea flipped Russian she applied to Czech republic for citizenship rather than move to Ukraine central (because of the ongoing military tensions and NeoNazis etc)?
I vaguely remember photos of her protesting parliament, so I'm really glad to hear she managed to get that issue resolved to her satisfaction. Wiska is one of my all-time favourite performers, so I dearly hope she is living happily ever after.
I hope Nicole can work something out, and definitely do keep updating this thread as and when you know more re practical things members might do to support here (eg. template letter to CZ MPs or petition).
Were she Ukrainian it would be easy, or at least far easier. Sadly the media-fuelled Russia-phobia in Europe is pure paranoid-hysterical right now (just see the calls for boycotting Russian porn here), so she will need all the support she can get from settled EU residents who can vouch for her being a 'good Russian' and not a 'bad Russian' (the prevailing villainous stereotype).