Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine stuns Russia to win politically charged Eurovision
Ukrainian Jamala won the 61st Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Swedish capital Stockholm. Her song ‘1994′ scored 534 points, closely followed by Australia’s Dami Im with 511 points, the juries’ favorite …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Minsk talks restarted
Top diplomats from Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France – the so-called Normandy Format – met in Berlin this past Wednesday to discuss the latest situation in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Sore Russian officials bash Ukraine Eurovision win
Russian lawmakers Sunday lashed out at arch-rival Ukraine’s “political” victory in the Eurovision song contest, as one pro-Kremlin paper insisted Moscow’s entrant was robbed …read more Source: The Daily...
Crimean Tatar from Ukraine wins Eurovision Song Contest
Jamala wins competition with song called 1944 about deportation of Crimean Tatars under Joseph Stalin …read more Source: Anadolu...
Crimean Tatar artist stuns with Eurovision victory
Ukraine’s representative, Jamala, has been declared the winner in Stockholm after a heart-felt performance of ‘1944’, a song about the deportations of Crimean Tatars during World War II …read more Source: World...
Crimean Tatar stuns with Eurovision victory
Ukraine’s representative, Jamala, has been declared the winner in Stockholm after a heart-felt performance of ‘1944’, a song about the deportations of Crimean Tatars during World War II …read more Source: World...
Ukraine’s Jamala takes home Eurovision crown with song about war
Ukraine’s Jamala struck a surprise gold in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with a song “1944” about war-time deportations of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union in one of the most controversial winners in the competition’s history. In a show known down the years for its playfulness and camp, 32-year-old Jamala struck a sombre...
Eurovision winning entry: 1944, a harrowing family tale about Stalin’s deportation of Muslim Tatars
KIEV // “When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say, ‘we’re not guilty, not guilty’.”Those are the harrowing opening words of war-scarred Ukraine’s winning entry for the Eurovision song contest — a flamboyant and festive occasion more normally associated with laughs than...
Ukraine wins Eurovision song contest, Israel takes 14th
The 2016 Eurovision Song Contest final took place Saturday in Stockholm, Sweden. …read more Source: Arutz...
Ukraine’s Jamala wins Eurovision contest with 1944
Song by Jamala about strangers coming to “kill you all” seen as allusion Stalin’s deportation of Tartars from Crimea. …read more Source: AL...
