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Ukraine wins Eurovision Song Contest, UK comes second

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Following a rollercoaster voting section this year, Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with their song ‘Stefania’.

The UK’s Sam Ryder followed in second place with ‘Space Man’, in a dramatic turnaround from last year’s nul points disaster.Already one of the favourites to win the competition, it became widely expected that Ukraine would be Eurovision champions this year following the Russian invasion of the country in February.Of course, following those events, it had not been a given that Ukraine would be able perform at this year’s contest at all.

First there was the logistical question of whether Kalush Orchestra would be able to travel to this year’s host city, Turin in Italy.

And then there was the political dimension, with Eurovision famously having a strict no politics rule, which is always hard to enforce when there is an ongoing political and/or military conflict between two countries competing in the contestThe conflict between Russia and Ukraine has impacted on Eurovision before, of course, in particular following the former’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.

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