Putin spoke about the Eurovision song contest in Kiev

Russia’s decision on refusal from participation in the contest he thinks is right.

Russian President Vladimir Putin considers correct the decision of Russia on refusal from participation in the contest “Eurovision” in Kiev. He stated that on may 15 press conference.

“The fact that our structures are involved in the process, refused to participate (in “Eurovision” – Ed.) I think I did the right thing because, in my opinion, the Kiev authorities are not able to host an event of this kind”, – said Putin.

“Those who wanted to see could always do it online,” added Putin.

However, the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kirilenko in his microblog on Twitter said that Ukraine has successfully coped with the holding of a prestigious song contest in Kiev.

Opinions about the success of Ukraine in the organization of the contest is shared by the head of the Eurovision song contest, Jan Ola sand, he said that the Eurovision song contest-2017, which was held in Kiev, was organized by the Ukrainian side at the highest level and went flawless.

We will remind, in Kiev ended the international song contest Eurovision-2017. The winner this year was 27-year-old Portuguese Salvador Collected with the song Amar pelos dois. The representative of Portugal received the highest score from both the national jury and the spectators of the contest.

A song for the participant from Portugal wrote to his sister, Louise Collected. She also got the win in the special category of the Eurovision song contest “prize of the composers,” as the author of the best heard at the competition of music. Ukraine this year took 24-th place.

As previously reported, the singer Yulia Samoylova, who did not go to the Eurovision song contest in Kyiv in may this year, will take part in the competition in 2018. General Director of the Russian”First channel” Konstantin Ernst, argues that there is a corresponding agreement with the European broadcasting Union.

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