The European Broadcasting Union has banned Russia from participating in this year’s popular Eurovision song contest after other nations objected to its inclusion amid its attack on Ukraine. Eurovision ...
Banished from Eurovision, Russia will launch the final of its own international song contest at President Vladimir Putin’s behest on Saturday, with a Soviet-era name and acts intended to promote ...
Jamala, the song contest’s 2016 champion, had been a prominent advocate for Crimea’s Tatar population. The region was annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014. By Ivan Nechepurenko Russia has added a ...
Hundreds of thousands of Russians were glued to their television sets last Saturday for an event that they treat with almost as much gravity as an international sporting match or a presidential ...
Russia has put a Ukrainian singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 on a wanted criminal list, according to state media. Jamala, whose full name is Susana Jamaladynova, is “on the wanted ...