May
15, 2016 (BBC News) Ukraine's Jamala has won this year's Eurovision Song
Contest, held in Stockholm, Sweden. The country scored 534 points with
its song 1944, about the deportation of Crimean Tatars under Josef Stalin. Australia
finished second with 511 points, while Russia - which was the favourite going
into the competition - was third with 491 points. Jamala is the first Crimean
Tatar to perform at the contest and her song caused controversy because of
alleged political overtones. It references the year when Stalin deported almost
all of the Tatar ethnic group from its native region of Crimea in what was then
the Soviet Union. The song has angered Russia, which annexed Crimea from
Ukraine in 2014, as tension between the two countries grew.
President
Poroshenko hailed
Jamala's victory and said her performance had been
"incredible". The juries from Russia and Ukraine did not award each
other any points. However large numbers of the Russian public voted for the
Ukrainian song, awarding it 10 points, while the Ukrainian public gave Russia's
entry the maximum 12 points.
The
whole article and video are available at http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36295168
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