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BBC: Eurovision on front line – will Russia’s absence spoil Ukraine’s party?

By BBC.

Published May 9, 2017 at 4:12 pm

A handout photo taken on March 11 in Moscow and provided by Russia's Channel One press service shows Russian singer Yuliya Samoilova.

Photo by AFP

Performers from 42 countries strode down a long red carpet near Ukraine’s parliament this week, as a curtain-raiser to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.