It’s Eurovision time and Ukraine is the unofficial favorite

The World

The world’s most-watched live music event is, of course, Eurovision. The international song contest goes back to the 1950s, and organizers have always tried to keep politics out of it. But this year, with the war in Ukraine raging, the emerging consensus is that Ukraine is going to be this year’s big winner, because of, well, politics. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

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