Sports may be out of politics at the moment. This proved the final of the football Champions League. This sporting action took place on May 28in Paris at the Stade de France stadium. It makes no sense to discuss the quality of the game. This was done by football experts in their numerous comments. Unfortunately, […]
I confess, I’ve never been too keen on the Eurovision Song Contest and only because the style of music isn’t my thing. But many people have fun with it. It is after all a time to put aside our differences and celebrate diversity….unless you are a young Russian woman in a wheelchair, that is.
That Ukrainian authorities’ reason for banning Yulia Samoilova, Russia’s entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest due to be held shortly in Kiev, from entering Ukraine is to prevent any Russian participation in the Contest at all, became clearer today when the Ukrainian authorities rejected a proposal from the Contest organisers that Samoilova be allowed to participate in the Contest via satellite.
The Ukrainian authorities have acted on their threat to ban Yulia Samoilova – the wheelchair bound signer the Russians have picked to represent them in this year’s Eurovision song contest in Kiev – from travelling to Ukraine.
The grounds for this ban are that Samoilova violated Ukrainian law by taking part in a concert in Crimea in 2015.
