The Ukrainian newspaper, Pravda, has stated that the Ukrainian prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman wants a public selection to determine which city will host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017. Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa have all expressed interest so far. The prime minister of Ukraine announced that he would like a bidding process to bet set up, and for the …

Now that we’ve all had a week to let the dust and glitter settle on an incredible contest in Stockholm (how’s the PED?), our thoughts can turn to next year’s event. Ukraine were victorious in Sweden and as a result we head east in 2017 for the first time in five years. But just what can we expect from next …

As reported by several national media outlets including UAtoday and the press office for the president, Jamala has received the highest honour anyone in the field of entertainment can receive.   Here is Jamala in the picture above with the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. He together with Jamala and the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, have formally announced the …

The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 has come to a close and we have a winner. Jamala from Ukraine ended up on top with the song 1944. Due to the new voting system, the results were a nail biter until the very last second.But in the end, there can only be one winner. The full televote points breakdown will follow soon. …

Here we are again for another round of predictions! We’ve counted up your votes, we’ve compiled our lists of qualifiers and we’re ready to take back the title from the readers! On Tuesday, the readers “televote” results were slightly more accurate than ours, but we feel pretty confident today! Once again we were astounded at the response to our poll so thank …

After 3 weeks of intense competing, Jamala won the national selection final show in Ukraine. Being one of the favourites right from the start, I caught up with her during her preparations for Stockholm. Hello Jamala, thank you for taking the time to answer these questions for us. What was your reaction when the Ukrainian public selected you to represent …

2 semi finals down, 3 weekends later, Ukraine has selected its finalist for Eurovision 2016 in Stockholm. The winner, who will be flying the Ukrainian flag in Stockholm will be Jamala with her song ‘1944’. She got 5 points from the jury and 6 points from the televotes. Ukraine have a 100% Grand final qualifying record in Eurovision with 1 victory back …

With 2 semi finals over, Ukraine has now selected their top 6 acts to go through to their National Final on Sunday 21st February. The finalists and the combined scores are as follows: Jamala ‘1944’  (9 points Jury/9 points Televote) SunSay ‘Love Manifest’ (9 points Jury/9 points Televote) Brunettes Shoot Blondes ‘Every Monday’ (8 Points Jury/7 Points Televote) Pur:Pur ‘We …

Tonight is a huge night in Eurovisionland. (Potentially) Three songs will be selected for Stockholm, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. Italian TV channel will offer the opportunity to the winner to go to Eurovision, but, that is down to the act. Ukraine: Semi-Final 2 SunSay  – Love Manifest Pur:Pur – We do Change Peaks of Kings – Last Hope Pringlez – Easy to love Victoria Petryk – Overload …

  Here, exclusively with ESC United, we have an interview with the JESC 2015 participant for Ukraine, Anna Trincher. Anna has been on such a journey since JESC. I learnt a lot whilst communicating with Anna for this interview, even wrote in Ukrainian 🙂  I asked Anna some questions to get to know more about her.   Your JESC 2015 …