By passport and fashion

The 29-year-old Israeli singer Hovy Star was humiliated at passport control at the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo. This was reported on Saturday was reported by Metro with reference to the singer’s statement, made during the performance on the air of the Maltese talk show Xarabank. The incident occurred in early April, when Hovie, representing Israel at Eurovision 2016, arrived in the Russian capital at a party dedicated to the upcoming competition.

According to RBC -Ukraine, the border guards broke Hovie a passport, after which they said with a grin that he could not enter Russia. “Maybe people in Moscow are annoyed by people like me,” the singer remarked. “Perhaps because I am gay; perhaps because I am dressed as it is now; perhaps because I wear makeup; I don’t know.”

The singer had to contact the Israeli embassy in Moscow to restore the passport.

Hovie noticed that the song with which he will perform at Eurovision, Made of Stars, is just devoted to the equality of all people.

The first about the incident in Sheremetyeva was announced by singer Barera, a member of Eurovision-2016 from Spain. “This humiliation that they subjected him was so monstrous and incredible that I thought that I had a hallucination,” the singer said in one of her interviews.

Meanwhile, Life.ru, citing the organizer of the Moscow party, Dmitry Melnikova, denied the Hovie statement. “Indeed, there was a small hitch when the Israeli was controlled, but we do not associate it with some insults against Hovie,” the manager said. “He really looks extravagant and, apparently, could take the usual smiles of customs officers for mockery.”

Melnikov noted that during his stay in Moscow, the singer did not express any complaints, but remembered the incident in Sheremetyevo only three weeks later. The current statements of Hovie and the Borea, according to the manager, are explained by "the desire of the artists to proceed on the eve of the competition."