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Ukraine In The Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Ukraine was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "Stefania (song), Stefania", written by Ihor Didenchuk, Ivan Klymenko, Oleh Psiuk, Tymofii Muzychuk, and Vitalii Duzhyk, and performed by the group Kalush Orchestra. The Ukrainian participating broadcaster, Suspilne, Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC), organised a national final in order to select its entry for the contest. Eight entries competed in the national selection held on 12 February 2022 and "" performed by Alina Pash was selected as the winner following the combination of votes from a three-member jury panel and a public televote. UA:PBC confirmed on 16 February 2022 that Pash would not represent Ukraine following controversy regarding her travel history to the Crimea, territory of Crimea, and announced the national final runner-up, "Stefania" performed by Kalush Orchestra, as their entry on 22 February 2022. Ukraine was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspilne
The National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine JSC (, ''NTSU''), also known as Suspilne (, , ) or previously UA:PBC, is the national public broadcaster of Ukraine. As such it was registered on 19 January 2017.EBU WELCOMES NEW PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN UKRAINE EBU (20 Jan 2017) (19 January 2017) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 (song)
"1944" is a song composed and recorded by the Ukrainian musician Jamala, with it including lyrics by both her and performer Art Antonyan. It in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, and the song won the event with a total of 534 points. In May 2022, the British news publication ''The Independent'' named the song as the twentieth best Eurovision-winning song and opined that its "melancholic" approach "works perfectly". As well, in 2023, ''The Guardian'' ranked the song as the third best Eurovision winner in history. An official music video was released on 21 September 2016. In terms of its lyrics and general production, the song describes the discriminatory persecution of the Crimean Tatars in the context of Joseph Stalin's rule over the Soviet Union. These violent military actions, which resulted in numerous deaths, had personally endangered Jamala's grandparents, which influenced the piece's emotional tone and its other attributes. Jamala summed the release up as a musical "mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders of Russia, land borders with fourteen countries. Russia is the List of European countries by population, most populous country in Europe and the List of countries and dependencies by population, ninth-most populous country in the world. It is a Urbanization by sovereign state, highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, the List of metropolitan areas in Europe, most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and Society and culture in Saint Petersburg, cultural centre. Human settlement on the territory of modern Russia dates back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facebook
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age requirement is 14 years. , Facebook claimed almost 3.07 billion monthly active users worldwide. , Facebook ranked as the List of most-visited websites, third-most-visited website in the world, with 23% of its traffic coming from the United States. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. Facebook can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Zakletska-Burak
Anna Anatoliyivna Zakletska-Burak (; born 25 June 1984) is a Ukrainian TV presenter, singer, politician, public activist, and singer in the duo "Vroda". She spent time working as a scriptwriter, stage director, presenter, model, event manager, and choreographer in the children's ensemble, "Zernyatko". Early life Anna was born in Kyiv. Her father was an engineer and her mother was a professional singer. From age three, Anna performed in the children's ensemble, "Kiyanochka". *From 1993–1994, she studied in Newlands Manor School of Seaford, UK. *In 1999, she graduated from the Kyiv music school No 37, piano class. *In 2001, she graduated from the Kyiv School No 211 with an English language and literature degree. *In 2005, she received a bachelor's degree in political science from National University "Kyiv Mohyla Academy", Ukraine. *In 2006, she received a master's degree in political science from Taras Shevchenko National University of Ukraine. *In 2010, she continued her educati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Radio
The Ukrainian radio (), also called Radio Ukraine, is the publicly funded radio broadcaster in Ukraine since 1924. In 2017 it was merged with national TV company into the country's public broadcaster Suspilne.The Public Broadcasting Company has been launched in Ukraine (8 April 2015) Until the creation of the National Public Broadcasting Company (NPBC) of Ukraine, the National Radio Company of Ukraine was an independent company.Poroshenko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pershyi
Pershyi (, ; meaning First) is the Ukrainian public television channel, operated by the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine. It is the only Ukrainian TV channel covering over 97% of Ukraine's territory. Its programs are oriented toward all levels of Ukrainian society and national minorities. Among priority directions of the network are information, popular science, culture, entertainment and sports. History The station's history traces back to the first experiments on February 1, 1939; regular broadcasts started on November 6, 1951. In its current form, it was launched in 2015 as the main TV channel of the newly created public broadcaster. The channel has replaced Pershyi Natsionalnyi (, ''First National''), the state-operated TV channel that traced its origin to the Soviet UT (, , ''Ukrainian Television'') and after dissolution of the Soviet Union, UT-1. The channel's anniversary has always been November 6, the anniversary of its first broadcast in 1951. Pershyi is nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timur Miroshnychenko
Timur Valeriyovych Miroshnychenko (; born 9 March 1986) is a Ukrainian TV presenter for the channel UA:PBC. He was the host of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 together with Ani Lorak, and again in with Zlata Ognevich. He also co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. Biography Miroshnychenko was born on 9 March 1986 in Kyiv. In his years as a student he was a member of ''KVN'' student's team. His television career began in 2005, when he became the Ukrainian commentator for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 — the first Junior Eurovision to be broadcast in Ukraine. He went on to become the commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine from 2007, replacing Pavlo Shylko. He has since provided commentary for all contests since, except the contests that he hosted. He also hosted the programme ''Yak tse?'' ("How it is?"), also on UA:PBC. Miroshnychenko hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Kyiv with Zlata Ognevich, his second time hosting the J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Efrosinina
Maria Oleksandrivna Efrosynina (; born 25 May 1979), professionally known as Masha Efrosynina (), is a Ukraine, Ukrainian television host and media personality. Along with Pavlo Shylko, she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, 50th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2018, Maria became the United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador. Biography Graduating from high school with a gold medal (an honour roll), Efrosinina enrolled in the Department of Foreign Languages in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv University, graduating as an interpreter of the English language, English and Spanish language, Spanish languages. At 19 she debuted on the UA:First, First National channel in the program ''Happy Bell''. In 2002 she received the ''Teletriumph'' prize in the nomination the Best TV show. She co-presented the 50th Eurovision Song Contest 2005, Eurovision Song Contest alongside Pavlo Shylko, in 2005 from Palace of Sports, Kyiv, Kyiv's Sports P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiwibloggs
Wiwibloggs is a fansite and YouTube channel focusing on the Eurovision Song Contest, launched in 2009 by journalist William Lee Adams. History In April 2015, Wiwibloggs won the Arts & Culture category at the UK Blog Awards. Adams has judged at national selections for a number of countries, among them Armenia (in 2017), Belarus (in 2020), Finland (every year between 2017 and 2021), Germany (as a member of the 100-member fan jury panel in 2019), Norway (in 2017 and 2018), Romania (in 2019, alongside fellow Wiwibloggs correspondent Deban Aderemi), Slovenia (in 2025) and Spain. Wiwibloggs staffers have also been among the jurors for selections in Latvia and Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share .... In some cases, their role as jurors in national selection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2,952,301, making Kyiv the List of European cities by population within city limits, seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyiv is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center. It is home to many High tech, high-tech industries, higher education institutions, and historical landmarks. The city has an extensive system of Transport in Kyiv, public transport and infrastructure, including the Kyiv Metro. The city's name is said to derive from the name of Kyi, one of its four legendary founders. During History of Kyiv, its history, Kyiv, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of prominence and obscurity. The city probably existed as a commercial center as early as the 5th century. A Slav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
