2017 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in KievSeptember 9, 2016 - 17:39 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Ukrainian city of Kiev will host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, it has been announced, after a fortnight of delays, according to BBC News. The venue was due to be announced on 26 August, but a press conference was cancelled at the last minute. Organisers said they were "still discussing" candidates, but fans speculated Ukraine might pull out of the contest for financial reasons. Eurovision said Kiev, the capital city, would prove to be a "worthy host". "Kiev presented an excellent case and we are looking forward to working together to create the most electrifying show yet next May," said Jon Ola Sand, who oversees the contest for the European Broadcasting Union. This year, Sweden is thought to have spent $16m on staging the three live shows, making it the lowest-budget production in years. The city of Baku, in Azerbaijan, which hosted the contest in 2012, spent $64m after building the Baku Crystal Hall specifically for the event. In 2014, Denmark spent $48m and received $17m in tourism spending, while Austria paid $37m and received $29m in 2015. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |