After calls from several artists and pleas from a number of this year’s competing broadcasters (read more here), the EBU have announced today that Russia will not be allowed to compete at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Turin. Statement from @EBU_HQ regarding Russia’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.https://t.co/HmKJdqVE4J pic.twitter.com/tVH6yFxzbq — Eurovision Song Contest (@Eurovision) February 25, 2022 …
Geneva, 25 February 2022 The ongoing conflict between Ukraine and the Russian federation has sent waves of outrage rippling through the Eurovision Song Contest as well. Yesterday, Ukrainian public Broadcaster Suspilne (UA:PBC) posted an open letter to the EBU, asking the European Broadcasting Union to suspend Russia’s participation in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. A suspension from the EBU would …
Though the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) stated that Russia is “welcome to participate” at Eurovision 2022 after the invasion of its neighbor and fellow EBU member Ukraine began yesterday, several high profile participants and delegations past and present have voiced their objections. The most high profile is Citi Zeni, who won Latvia’s national selection and will represent the Baltic nation …
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, many fans wondered what position the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) would take on Russia’s participation at Eurovision 2022 in Turin, Italy. In response to statements put out by both Ukraine and Sweden’s broadcasters, the EBU today announced that Russia is welcome to participate despite widespread international condemnation of the country’s invasion of its …
A landmark moment in the yearly Eurovision Song Contest calendar, as this marks the official transition from last year’s host city (Rotterdam) to this year’s host city (Turin/Torino). The allocation draw was hosted by Carolina di Domenico and Mario Acampa. The Allocation Draw As usual, the draw took place in the upcoming host city of Turin, in the Palazzo Madama. …
All opinions expressed in this article are those of the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the other team members or ESC United as a whole. It’s one day to go until Junior Eurovision 2021, and we are counting down the 19 nations participating in Paris on Sunday, December 19, 2021. Every day we will do …
Just a few weeks ago, she won the national selection for Russia to represent the country at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 on the 19th of December in Paris. Today, Tanya Mezhentseva, dropped the official video for her entry, “Mon Ami,” which also received a little revamp from her national selection winning entry. You can watch the music video …
From Russia, with love! It was announced today that Tanya Mezhentseva will represent country at this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Paris. The eleven-year-old singer will be performing the upbeat, dance-y track ‘Mon Ami’. Tanya was selected via a national final taped in Moscow on Tuesday. The winner was determined through a 50/50 split of jury and online public …
Today, the EBU have announced the nineteen countries competing in this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest. They are: Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bulgaria France Germany Georgia Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Malta Netherlands North Macedonia Poland Portugal Russia Serbia Spain Ukraine Among these nineteen are a number of countries returning after missing the 2020 contest. Albania, Portugal, North Macedonia, Italy, and Ireland all …
It is no secret that Philip Kirkorov stated that “the dream team” will be in charge of Russia’s representative for Eurovision 2022, but no one expected to have the news so soon as this year’s contest just wrapped less than three weeks ago. Kirkorov was pictured with composer Dimitris Kontopoulos and stage director Fokas Evangelis along side Russian/Azeri singer JONY, who was also rumored to be Azerbaijani …
