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Belarus was not allowed to participate in Eurovision-2021: political overtones were found in the announced songs

Belarus will not go to the Eurovision Song Contest. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said that the songs submitted to the competition by the selection organizer, the media holding Belteleradiocompany, do not meet the criteria and cast doubt on the non-political nature of the music competition. The edition told in more detail with the BBC.

Belarus wanted to send a group "Galasy ZMesta" with the song "I will teach you" to the competition. In their song, the performers ridicule the leaders and ordinary protesters in the country.

On March 10, EBU sent a request to Belteleradiocompany to change or submit a new song that would comply with the rules of the competition.

The agency responded by sending a new song by the same artist. But EBU said that this song also violates the rules and could negatively affect the reputation of the competition.

The chairman of Belteleradiocompany Ivan Eismont told RIA Novosti that he considers the decision to exclude Belarus from participation in the song contest politically motivated. He said that EBU officially informed “Belteleradiocompany” about its decision, but the essence of the claims to the new song is not clear from the letter.

“It is not known which words of the song their rules violated. The EBU cannot explain the essence of the claims, ”stated Eismont.

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“For a formally non-political event, Eurovision has an amazing ability to get involved in political scandals. The latter concerns the rejection of the application from Belarus, where a large part of the population rebelled against the seemingly endless rule of Alexander Lukashenko. At least now we all know which country will be conspicuous by its absence from Rotterdam, ”Alexander Schlikhter, a correspondent, commented on the EMU's decision.

It was originally planned that the winners of the 2020 national selection, the VAL group, would go to Eurovision. However, since then, the duo members have given several interviews with a negative assessment of the situation in the country and the government has refused to nominate them for Eurovision.

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The competition is due to take place in Rotterdam in May 2021.

Ukraine and Russia at Eurovision

The electrofolk group Go_A, which won the selection in 2020, but did not make it to the competition, as it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will represent Ukraine in the competition this year.

They will present the song "Noise".

Russia has held a new selection, and now the singer of Tajik origin Manizha will go to the competition with the song Russian Woman ("Russian Woman").

In 2020, the Little Big group won the selection, but did not make it to the competition. The video for their song Uno broke the record for views on the Eurovision channel on YouTube.

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