Ukraine will not participate in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest following a scandal over the Russian touring schedule of national competition winner MARUV. This is not the first time political considerations have overshadowed musical merits in...
Jamala’s Eurovision Song Contest victory demonstrated the importance of soft power on the international stage - Ukraine’s cultural diplomacy strategy now needs to pay far more attention to safeguarding the nation’s rich but neglected Crimean...
Hosting Eurovision 2017 will give Ukraine a unique chance to dazzle hundreds if not thousands of visiting international journalists – and a successful song contest is only a small part of the far larger PR opportunity presented by the event