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2017

The 62nd Eurovision Song Contest took place in Kiev in Ukraine.

In case you wonder why we use Kiev and not Kyiv, back in 2010, Reuters editor Robert Bessler responded to a reader’s query about the spelling.

“Kiev is not the Russian spelling. It is the commonly accepted English language spelling of the name,” he explained. “We are not writing in Ukrainian, we are writing in English, so we use commonly understood English names for cities – hence Munich rather than Muenchen, Cologne not Koeln, Rome not Roma, etc.”

Germany in mid-table shocker

This has improved immeasurably from the national final to here. There has been some work done on this song by Levina and her team...

World-o-Vision? That vision seems distorted!

It seems that the world of the Eurovision internet has gone mad over some wording changes on the eurovision.tv website. Major internet players like...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – United Kingdom

Never Give Up On You by Lucie Jones The coincidence of being British, and of alphabetical order, means that I always get to finish my...

Julia carries the flame for Russia

Rumour had it Russia planned to sit out Eurovision 2017 - and then, on the eve of an organiser's meeting in Ukraine, Channel One...

Nay Mr Wilkes – TVE aren’t that bad

In this editorial piece, Phil Colclough, Webmaster of OnEurope shares his thoughts about Spain and their fall out of love with Eurovision. It generally starts...

Latvia – How on earth did we miss a Supernova??!

Firstly, I need to make my deepest apologies to all Latvians everywhere, as a site we appear to have forgotten your fine selection with...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Croatia

Croatia – My Friend by Jacques Houdek Jacques Houdek has been within grasp of the Eurovision stage once before, competing for the opportunity to represent...

Hello? – This thing is *still* on!

Hello peoples of Europe! Whilst open rehearsals are now complete, don't you go thinking that that's all the coverage we have for you here at...

Lithuania – Do you really need the olympics to choose a...

As someone once said, it's not a sprint, it's a marathon, and despite shortening the course this year, LRT have decided on another huge...

Claudia Faniello gets breathless for Eurovision

It was wall-to-wall Borgs and Vellas at the Maltese national final. And that paid off for Claudia Faniello who topped the scoreboard with 'Breathlessly'. It's...