{"id":3683,"date":"2016-05-15T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T01:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/15\/ukraine-wins-eurovision-with-powerful-performance-targeting-russia\/"},"modified":"2016-05-15T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T01:46:02","slug":"ukraine-wins-eurovision-with-powerful-performance-targeting-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/15\/ukraine-wins-eurovision-with-powerful-performance-targeting-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine wins Eurovision with powerful performance targeting Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ap_595444121177\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzE0LzFkL0FQXzU5NTQ0NDEyLmIzZjI3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/357fadcc\/d35\/AP_595444121177.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Ukraine+wins+Eurovision+with+powerful+performance+targeting+Russia&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F14%2Fukraine-wins-eurovision%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F14%2Fukraine-wins-eurovision%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With a political performance pointed squarely at Russia, Ukraine has won this year&#8217;s Eurovision Song Contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a nail biter to the end, with a country outside of Europe in the lead for much of the vote counting. While the juries overwhelmingly backed Australia, it was the audience vote that brought gold home for Ukraine Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Ukraine&#8217;s Jamala sang her ballad &#8220;1944,&#8221; which was partly <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2016\/may\/13\/eurovision-2016-ukraine-singer-urges-vote-for-crimean-ballad?CMP=share_btn_tw\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">about<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> Russia&#8217;s forceful annexation of Crimea, a peninsula that once belonged to Ukraine. Jamala, whose real name is\u00a0Susana Jamaladynova, is a Crimean Tatar, a population that experienced deportation and great devastation under Joseph Stalin during World War II. &#8220;1944&#8221; references that dark part of history as well and calls for peace.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/14\/ukraine-wins-eurovision\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/russia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Russia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ukraine\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ukraine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/eurovision\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Eurovision<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/music\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Music<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/UWt3_wOfGVc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a political performance pointed squarely at Russia, Ukraine has won this year&#8217;s Eurovision Song Contest.\u00a0 It was a nail biter to the end, with a country outside of Europe in the lead for much of the vote counting. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/15\/ukraine-wins-eurovision-with-powerful-performance-targeting-russia\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,1368,800,1961,2869],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-eurovision","tag-music","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}