Russians races after Ukraine won with political song – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): After a week of the Eurovision Song Contest final stage, it became clear that Ukraine won the victory after a dramatic voice round.

32 years old Jamala hit finally the most votes after rockers tried for first place with both Australia and Russia.

Ukraine ended at 534 points, while Australia got 511. Russia got very most phone votes but finished third, with 491 points.

Now it arouses concern that Russia, which was long identified as one of the pre-favorites, eventually was beaten by Ukrainians who sang about Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944.

Simon Bennett, chairman of Internationale Eurovision fan club, told the BBC that he believes that there is politics behind the voting. He thinks people would take active stance in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and believes former Soviet countries that normally would have been in Russia, now sent a clear message by voting for Ukraine.

Controversial

Eurovision this year had a new voice system, where jury votes were handed out first, before the phone votes were handed out in a new points system to an end.

the Russian news agency RIA Novosti writes that the new voting rules, which they believe gives questionable results, creates debate. They go far in suggesting that the Russian artist Sergei Lazarev and his song “You Are the Only One” should have gone off with the victory.

Russia’s largest newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda goes much further and writes:

– How robbed a European jury victory from Lazarev, on their stories.

The newspaper writes that the jury chose Australia as the winner, while most people wanted Russia. But finally won Ukraine because the jury gave the Russian track phenomenally low grades.

“Wonder how it feels for the singer who won the competition, knowing that they did not vote for her because she was so wonderful, but for political reasons?” Writes the newspaper’s journalists.

On Twitter there are many who claim the same.

newspaper Russia Today comes up and calls Ukraine’s participation in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest was very provocative. They also claim that the European Broadcasting Union would do everything in his power to stop any Russian vinnerlåt.

They also believe that the Ukrainian song should have been disqualified because Jamala shall be admitted to a famous Russian prankster that song “definitely” contains a political message. “But if she had called the song in 2014 instead of 1944, it would have meant immediate disqualification. Therefore she kept in secret, “writes the newspaper.

Political songs not allowed

Political songs are usually not allowed in the Eurovision Song Contest, but” 1944 “shall be allowed because it was based on historical fact, rather than current policies.

According to NTB has track has aroused resentment among Russian politicians. Deputy Vadim Dengin of the Russian Duma’s information and communications committee should have called the decision “strange” and said it violated Eurovision ban on political songs.

– I’m sure it was done to humiliate Russia, told RIA Novosti before the competition.

Jamal song “1944″ is about the deportation of an estimated 240,000 Crimean Tatars under Stalin’s Soviet Union, but Jamala does not deny that the message may also include Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

She said according to NTB that she joined the singing contest for people to hear about the helplessness she experienced after the Russian annexation.

– If you sing about truth, it touch people, she says, said the winner after his victory.

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko was quick congratulations on Twitter.

– Yes! A fantastic performance and victory. The entire Ukraine thank you from the heart, he wrote.

To own grandmother

The song is the story of Jamal own Tatar grandmother, who was one of the around 240,000 Tatars who on 17 May 1944, forced into in railway carriages, and forcibly to the steppes of Central Asia.

“It was a bloody, outrageous and brutal history, which today we would call ethnic cleansing,” writes Dagbladet commentator Morten Strand.

He believes winning song has an obvious political text, and predicts that this will be admitted in the Russian debates.

– It interferes with the very complicated relationship between Russia and Ukraine, even though it is not a text which criticizes Russia today, so there is an inherent criticism of the song. It was the rulers in Moscow, who deported Tatars, they were victims of moskovittisk oppression. This is a theme that sounds familiar in Kiev today, says Strand.

He thinks not mean that competition will affect relations between the two countries.

– No, I do not think any of the parties are interested in it. Had this result came two years ago, just after the annexation of the Crimea and the war raged on the most brutal, it had been used by both parties as war propaganda. But no one will use this to create conflict and distance in 2016. Political leaders are not interested in a confrontation, they will actually bury the hatchet, but do not know how to do it.

Exciting about Russia coming

President of the Norwegian Grand Prix team Morten Thomassen told Dagbladet that he believes Ukraine received many sympathy votes Saturday night due to unrest in the country.

– it will be interesting to see if the Russians actually come to Kiev next year, says Thomassen.

Dagbladet Morten Strand predicts, however, that the Russians will set in next year’s competition broadcast Ukraine.

– It is still in a kind of state of war between the two countries, but on the other side seeking Russians constantly legitimacy and visibility in all arenas from sports to culture. Eurovision has a higher status in Russia than in many other countries. A boycott would be a bitter pill to swallow for the Russians because to show off is a conscious part of the political project for Putin, he says.

– It’s almost like in the Soviet era when it to do well on an international stage was a political statement.

MGP-general per sundnes mean it is great that Ukraine won with a political song.

– Eurovision supposed to be political, but that is exactly what it is, within this context. I think it’s absolutely fantastic.

Competition As in previous years, full of controversies, writes New York Times.

While major newspapers around the world, such as The Guardian, reviewing winning song as politically charged.

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