Russia refused to participate in Eurovision-2017.
The European broadcasting Union (EBU) officially announced. that Russia will not participate in Eurovision-2017.
This is stated on the official website of the competition.
“Unfortunately, both proposals were rejected by the “First channel”. Therefore, Russia will not participate in the 62nd contest “Eurovision”. We really want all 43 countries have been able to take part in the competition this year and did everything possible to achieve this”, – stated in the message.
“We strongly condemn the decision of the Ukrainian authorities to impose a ban on the visit of Yulia Samoilova, we believe that it completely undermines the integrity and abolitionist “Eurovision” and its mission…” – said Frank Dieter Frayling, Chairman of the reference group of the Eurovision
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