The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organizer of the Eurovision international song contest, is going to change the rules of the contest to prohibit countries sending participants who might be banned from entering the host country...
Members of the Supervisory Board of Ukraine’s public broadcaster (UA:PBC) have appealed to the head of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and its director Ingrid Deltenre to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty, refrain from...
The Eurovision conflict surrounding Russia’s contestant Yulia Samoilova shows no signs of subsiding. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) banned the singer from entering Ukrainian territory on 22 March, after it was discovered...
On 22 March 2017, Ukraine’s authorities barred Russia’s entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest from entering Ukraine. The three-year ban effectively prevents Yulia Samoilova from performing at the contest, which takes place in Kyiv...
By choosing Yuliya Samoilova, a singer in a wheelchair, as a Russian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest-2017 in Kyiv, Russia threw the bait to the human rights-sensitive West. And the West took it, despite rights of people with...
On 22 March 2017, Ukraine’s security service banned entry to Russia’s Eurovision participant Yulia Samoilova over her performance in occupied Crimea which violated Ukrainian laws on entering Crimean territory. The European...
James Sherr, Senior Fellow, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the International Centre for Defence and Security, Tallinn, Associate Fellow, Russia & Eurasia Programme, Chatham House, London By voicing his “insistence” on...
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