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Eurovision 2017

The latest news and comment on Eurovision 2017

May 2017

  • Australian singer Isaiah Firebrace performs Don’t Come Easy during the final of the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev

    Australia's Isaiah Firebrace ninth as Eurovision 2017 is crashed by streaker

  • Francesco Gabbani, representing Italy, performs Occidentali’s Karma with a friend 2017<br>KIEV, UKRAINE - MAY 12: Singer Francesco Gabbani, representing Italy, performs the song 'Occidentali's Karma' during the rehearsal for ''The final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest'' at International Exhibition Centre (IEC) on May 12, 2017 in Kiev, Ukraine. The final of this years Eurovision Song Contest will be aired on May 13, 2017. (Photo by Michael Campanella/Getty Images)

    Eurovision song contest 2017 – as it happened

  • Francesco Gabbani (right) performing Italy’s Eurovision entry

    Datablog
    How English is the Eurovision Song Contest?

  • Lucie Jones during rehearsals

    Eurovision 2017: UK gets excuses in early but is tipped to avoid nul points

  • Sound and vision
    The best TV shows this week: Kimmy and Titus are back, back, back

  • Eurovision 2017 is an after-hours pub car park – and the UK will get a kicking

    Stuart Jeffries

  • Eurovision: Anja Nissen becomes second Australian in 2017 final

  • Australia's Isaiah Firebrace through to Eurovision final

  • Twenty years of hurt: how Britain could win Eurovision again

April 2017

  • Russian singer Julia Samoilova, who was chosen to represent Russia in the 2017 Eurovision song contest

    Russian withdrawal throws Eurovision politics into sharp relief

  • Singer Julia Samoylova

    Russia pulls out of Eurovision after singer barred from Ukraine

March 2017

  • Russian singer Yuliya Samoilova

    Eurovision threatens to ban Ukraine over Russian singer row

    Ukraine imposed three-year ban on Yuliya Samoilova over illegally entering Moscow-annexed Crimea to perform in 2015
  • Yulia Samoilova is representing Russia in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest.

    Eurovision wants barred Russian singer to compete via satellite in Ukraine

    Yulia Samoilova handed lifeline after host nation Ukraine barred her from country for illegally entering Crimea

    • Ukraine bans Russia's Eurovision entrant over Crimea tour

    • Isaiah Firebrace named Australian entrant for 2017 Eurovision – video

    • X Factor winner Isaiah Firebrace to represent Australia at 2017 Eurovision song contest

February 2017

  • Eurovision - Dress Rehearsal &amp; Final<br>ATHENS - MAY 20: Monster rock band Lordi of Finland celebrate their victory at the conclusion of the finals of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest May 20, 2006 in Athens, Greece. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

    TV and radio blog
    Eurovision announces new contest – and the UK is nowhere to be seen

  • Ukraine’s Jamala reacts after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016.

    Eurovision 2017: Ukraine warned show must go on as organising team quits

January 2017

  • Lucie Jones.

    Lucie Jones chosen to represent UK at Eurovision

    The former X Factor hopeful beat five other veterans of the programme with her song, Never Give Up On You

October 2016

  • Dami Im

    Eurovision 2017: Australia to compete for third year as song contest heads to Ukraine

    SBS managing director says Dami Im’s result shows Europe has embraced Australia’s entry into competition
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