Kyiv won the right to host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest thanks to Ukrainian singer Jamala’s victory with her haunting song “1944” about the Soviet deportation of the Crimean Tatars
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
Ukraine will host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest after Jamala wins in Stockholm with powerful and politically potent song highlighting plight of Crimean Tatars
Ukrainian singer Jamala’s haunting ballad ‘1944’ draws international attention to plight of Tatar minority in Russian-occupied Crimea as Putin’s hybrid war casts shadow over Europe’s famously kitsch annual song contest
Politically charged Ukrainian entry to kitsch annual song contest has obvious parallels with current oppression of Crimean Tatars by Russian forces in Occupied Crimea
Song dedicated to Crimean Tatar victims of 1944 Soviet deportation challenges myth of ‘Russian Crimea’ while reminding world of often overlooked Stalin era crimes against humanity
Wednesday, 10 February 2016 01:27
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