KIEV: Ukraine on Saturday complained of “unprecedented and unacceptable” calls from the Eurovision Song Contest’s organisers for it to lift an entry ban on Russia’s contestant.
In an angry row ahead of the kitsch song contest in May to be hosted in Kiev, Ukraine has barred Russia’s 27-year-old singer Yulia Samoilova over illegally entering Moscow-annexed Crimea for a 2015 performance.
Eurovision organisers, the Geneva-based …read more
Source: The Gulf Today
