Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 15.The Eurovision Song Contest has shown that humiliating Europe is now in trend, says Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. , probably ridiculed. Because it is so obvious and so indecent that it seemed to me: the European broadcasting corporation and the organizers will not allow them to be humiliated like this. But it turns out that humiliating Europe is now in trend, «said Zakharova on air» Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov» on TV channel «Russia 1». According to the total results of the audience voting and the jury, the representatives of Ukraine received 631 points, becoming the winners by a wide margin from the nearest rival — Great Britain, which scored 466 votes. Due to the rules of the contest, according to which political calls from the stage are prohibited, the organizers of Eurovision had to comment on the situation with this statement: the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) described it as «more of a humanitarian gesture than a political one».
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