BASEL, Switzerland — There has already been triumph and tears, singing onstage and in the streets, and a touch of political division, as the 69th Eurovision Song Contest approaches its grand final in ...

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Ukraine’s musicians can’t escape war, even at the Eurovision Song Contest. Rock band Ziferblat were in Basel, Switzerland to represent their country when they learned the ...

BASEL, Switzerland — There has already been triumph and tears, singing onstage and in the streets, and a touch of political division, as the 69th Eurovision Song Contest approaches its grand ...

Ukrainian folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra won the 2022 contest ... decking out the English city in blue and yellow Ukrainian flags. Even before the full-scale invasion, Ukraine used Eurovision ...

Russia was banned from Eurovision after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and since then Ukrainian musicians — including 2022 winner Kalush Orchestra — have competed under the shadow ...

A recent exception to that rule was when Liverpool in the UK was the host city in 2023, after Sam Ryder finished second in the 2022 contest. That was because although Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra ...