COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Singers from 26 nations will compete on Saturday in the kitschy cocktail of pop and politics that is the Eurovision song contest, with a bearded Austrian drag queen battling ...
Russia was banned from various cultural and sporting events after it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It has looked to substitute those events with its own home-grown versions.
The Eurovision Song Contest -- the world's largest live music competition -- faced the prospect of mass withdrawals, after organisers opted not to vote on Israel's future participation, allowing it to ...