Welsh pop singer Bonnie Tyler has been confirmed as the UK representative at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.
By contrast, the foreign press has covered human rights extensively in the run-up to Eurovision.
Few were surprised to learn recently that the president is profiting off the Eurovision contest.
The Celtic cultural revival began as a spectacular diversion at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin.
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That song, "Hard Rock Hallelujah" by Lordi, scooped the Eurovision Song Contest for Finland.
And could tainted relations between the two countries even have robbed Ani of victory at Eurovision 2008?
Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has written the song which will represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest.
It was my duty, as your intrepid Eurovision reporter, to join in with the UK leg last month.
Ryan Dolan from Strabane, County Tyrone, has been announced as Ireland's entry for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.
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Last year Russia won the Eurovision Song Contest - and this year's competition is being held in Moscow.
Spain's Eurovision entrant has denied reports she was asked not to win by her country's public television channel.
You have to take part in the glitz and the glamour of Eurovision.
Lindsay performed a good song well but it's clear that Eurovision has changed dramatically since telephone voting came in.
Right now Baku is a reminder that Eurovision is more than one night.
And sadly, the song never made it to the Eurovision final in Norway.
Several countries had to pull out of the Eurovision in 2010 because they could not afford to take part.
The OAKA Stadium where the Eurovision is being held is bristling with activity.
Not to be outsung, the Warsaw Pact came up with its own version of Eurovision - the Intervision Song Contest.
Azerbaijan's harsh treatment of government critics has been in the spotlight since it hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in May.
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The UK last won the Eurovision in 1997 when Katrina and the Waves received 227 points for their song Love Shine a Light.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has ordered an inquiry into why his country gave Russia "nul points" at Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest.
The UK entry for the 58th Eurovision Song Contest was written by American songwriter Desmond Child with British songwriters Lauren Christy and Christopher Braide.
"I am truly honoured and delighted to be able to represent my country at Eurovision, and especially with such a fabulous song, " said Tyler.
Through those connections, representatives from the Armenian Eurovision entry got in touch with Iommi to ask if he could write a song.
"We want to win this Eurovision, " Soler told the BBC World Service.
The Eurovision final in Kiev, Ukraine, is due to take place on 21 May - when Jordan will be eight months pregnant.
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Eurovision, in which viewers across Europe (broadly defined) select a winning song from competing national entries, is an annual festival of kitsch.
Not only do Azerbaijan's human-rights abuses make a grim backdrop to the clowning of Eurovision: some have been perpetrated on its account.
Mind you, even the Iron Curtain couldn't block out all Eurovision influences.
It is only the second time in the 55-year history of Eurovision that Germany has won, after Nicole's A Little Peace in 1982.
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