Russia has been banned from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest
The move marks a significant U-turn for the EBU following yesterday’s request from the head of Ukraine’s state broadcaster, UA:PBC, to ban Russia. The EBU initially stated that Russia and Ukraine would be welcome to compete.
“Since the beginning of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, EBU broadcasters from the Russian Federation, including Channel One and the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, have been the Kremlin’s mouthpiece and key instrument of Russian-funded political propaganda,” UA:PBC’s chair Mykola Chernotytsky wrote in an open letter to EBU president Delphine Ernotte Cunci.
“Instead of following the values of the EBU, these broadcasters constantly and systematically spread misinformation, violate journalistic standards, spread hostility and are a leading element of the Russian government’s information war against Ukraine and the rest of the civilized world.” The news comes as the death toll from Ukraine climbs steadily higher, and fighting reaches the capital Kyiv.
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