Eurovision winner Jamala returned to a hero's welcome at Kyiv airport. Jamala's song, 1944, told the story of the deportations of Crimean Tatars under Stalin -- and was widely seen as a comment on Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and subsequent repression of Crimean Tatars.
Ukraine's Jamala, a 32-year-old Crimean Tatar, says her winning performance at the Eurovision Song Contest was inspired by the soundtrack of the film, Schindler's List. She also previewed a new song at her post-contest news conference in Stockholm. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
Ukraine's Jamala, a 32-year-old Crimean Tatar, celebrates at a post-performance news conference after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. Her song, 1944, is about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's mass deportation of Crimean Tatars to Central Asia in during World War II.
Jamala has won the Eurovision Song Contest with a song about the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union during World War II. It's one of the most controversial winners in the competition's history due to its political undertones. Russia claimed political bias in the voting.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that the United States will move forward with a third loan guarantee agreement to support reforms against corruption.
Ukraine's Eurovision entry has reached the finals with a song about the suffering of Crimean Tatars forcibly deported under Josef Stalin. But seen through the prism of Russian state media, the song has a very different meaning.
RFE/RL's Crimean news desk, Krym.Realii, has welcomed Moscow's decision to unblock its news website in Russia and Moscow-annexed Crimea.
The chief of RFE/RL's Krym.Realii or Crimea Realities, says Russian authorities have unblocked access to the news website. The website's chief, Volodymyr Prytula, said in Kyiv on May 13 that no content was removed before the ban was lifted. (RFE/RL's Current Time TV)
Ten countries, including Ukraine, advanced from the second of two semifinals completing the final line-up for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest's grand finale this week in Stockholm.
Ukrainian Eurovision contestant Jamala said her song about Josef Stalin's deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 was all the more relevant following more searches of homes and detentions of Tatars on the Russian-occupied peninsula on May 12.
A new push by Britain to uncover the true owners of pricey foreign-owned real estate in the country could shine a spotlight on scores of business and political elites from the former Soviet Union.
Scandal is brewing around Russia's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest after an old interview emerged in which the singer admits he is not a fan of Russia's takeover of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
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