Eurovision

Pro-Kremlin Russian hackers say they could "add votes to some other country" to prevent a Ukraine Eurovision 2022 win.

Naturally, Eurovision organizers should take extra special cybersecurity precautions this year if they want to ensure the voting system remains as robust as possible." Jake Moore, the former head of digital forensics at Dorset Police in the U.K and now global cybersecurity advisor at cybersecurity outfit ESET, says, "it is unsurprising it has also become a target for a cyberattack, particularly when winning is so entwined with national pride. In an apparent attempt to prevent or disrupt the online voting for current Eurovision favorites from Ukraine, the Kalush Orchestra, Killnet has hinted it could target Eurovision servers. The threat is certainly there, although whether it will amount to anything is, frankly, unlikely. The messaging is quite mixed to say the least. This involved disrupting "the Anonymous website."

The Eurovision grand final is the climax of the world's greatest, glitziest and campiest song contest, in which singers from around Europe go note-to-note ...

Since 2002, Liet International has been offering a platform to musicians from these communities — though it is a world away from the showy spectacle of a Eurovision final. In the run up to Saturday’s final, attendees of the event — artists, media, crew — had to take coronavirus antigen tests every 72 hours, and everyone arriving had to test as well. I relate to the idea of Europe to the kind of universality of Europe and the diversity of it more than anything else,” he said. “Mum and Dad wouldn’t be interested in watching any of the performances by certain countries,” Ms. Bresic said. He was also a coach on “The Voice,” a singing contest in France. Mr. Sheen said he held his first Eurovision party in 1991, and continued to host parties for the next 20 years. “She managed to cast a spell on the whole audience,” he said. The song — sung in English — seems to be about a woman struggling to forget her ex. But for me it will be hard to get over Salvador Sobral’s snotty comments right after he won the contest in 2017: ”“We live in a world of fast-food music. Romania’s WRS has taken the stage to sing, Llámame, a song that sounds like it was made for a beach bar. France half-heartedly participated in Eurovision for most of the 1990s and 2000s but it’s been back in the game these past few years. So when the Ukrainian singer-songwriter Jamala won the 2016 competition with “1944,” a song about the deportation of Crimean Tatars that year, Russia complained.

London (CNN) It tells you plenty about the Eurovision Song Contest that Norway's participants -- two grown men in wolf costumes who sing about bananas and ...

Dancer Vlad Kurochka is with the group in Italy. This year, Achille Lauro -- a man who takes his stage name from a famously hijacked cruise ship -- picks up the mantle for the smallest country in the competition. But this is still Eurovision, and it is still weird -- so casual viewers tuning in exclusively to shake their heads and tut won't be let down. "Stefania," sung in Ukrainian, is a tribute to Psyuk's mother, who still lives in the western city of Kalush from which the band takes its name. (Though he's still got a way to go to beat last year's winners, who were ultimately cleared of taking cocaine on air following a viral video that sparked an investigation by organizers.) The 2020 edition was canceled, and last year's took place with crowd restrictions. "I think it's all about the deep hydration." They most closely resemble a TikTok-ified Daft Punk, had the legendary French pair hired David Lynch as their artistic director and hit the kids' parties circuit. Italy could clinch the crown for a second consecutive year if hometown heroes Mahmood and Blanco deliver. Organizers banned Russia from the contest in February, 24 hours after an initial, widely criticized decision to allow it to take part. Kalush, meanwhile, sailed through Tuesday's semifinal and elicited wild cheers from the crowd when they came onstage. "As we speak, our country and our culture is under threat.