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Diversity, Interrupted: Anti-Gay Crusades Mar Ukraine’s Tolerant Façade
Source: Aleksandr Nosenko, Instagram. As this year’s Eurovision Song Contest enters its final weekend, a half-painted rainbow arch meant to symbolize the event’s slogan, “Celebrate Diversity,” hovers ominously over the city center. After far-right leaders complained that the colorful paint job amounted to homosexual propaganda, the...
Eurovision: Bulgaria’s Kostov can take part
Ukraine says Kristian Kostov’s visit to Russian-annexed Crimea in 2014 was apparently not illegal. …read more Source:...
Eurovision Song Contest: On-air marriage proposal steals the show
Macedonian entry Jana Burceska’s partner Alexander got down on one knee in front of the audience in Ukraine and popped the question. …read more Source:...
Volunteers in Ukraine: ‘If we want change, we have to inspire kids’
Our project teaching children to speak English is about cultural exchange and solidarity with our neighbours. This is how to reform a countryIn February 2014, 100 people – now known as the “heavenly hundred” – were shot dead by riot police during protests in Independence Square, Kiev. The “revolution of dignity” began as an outcry against the...
Macedonian Eurovision candidate announces she’s pregnant, gets engaged, fails to qualify for the finals
Jana Burceska, the Macedonian representative at this year’s Eurovision song contest in Ukraine failed to qualify to the final round. Still, not all was lost, as Burceska announced that she is pregnant, only to have her boyfriend and guitarist Aleksandar Filipovski propose to her during the event. …read more Source: Macedonian...
Belarus into Eurovision 2017 final
The Belarusian entry NaviBand performed their Belarusian-language song Historyja Maiho Zyccia (Story of My Life) in the second semifinal of the 62nd international song competition in Kiev on 11 May. …read more Source:...
“Yodel It!” qualifies Romanian’s Ilinca&Alex Florea to Eurovision final
AGERPRES special correspondent, Oana Ghita reports: Romania’s representatives to Eurovision 2017, Ilinca and Alex Florea have qualified to the final with “Yodel It!” in a show on Thursday night in Kiev, Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU states adopt Ukraine visa-free travel
EU states on Thursday adopted a regulation enabling Ukrainians with biometric passports to enter the EU (but not Ireland or the UK) without a visa for up to 90 days for “business, tourist or family purposes”. The visa-free regime is to enter into force 20 days after the European Parliament signs off on the accord on 17 May. Ukrainians...
Kristian Kostov Goes To The Eurovision Finals
The Bulgarian’s Representative of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 goes to the Finals this Saturday after his last night’s performance on the stage, reported BNR. He won the hearts of the audience and the jury in Kiev with his song “Beautiful mess”. The show will start at 22:00 p.m. The authorities in Kiev decided that Kristian was...
Eurovision Song Contest: Ireland knocked out
Brendan Murray’s hot-air balloon comes down with a bump after the second semi-final in Kiev. …read more Source:...



