Jamala representing Ukraine with the song “1944” reacts after winning the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 Grand Final in Stockholm, on May 14, 2016.
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The city is known to have enough hotel capacity and a good infrastructure and as such is suitable to host a big worldwide event like the Eurovision Song Contest.
Culture Minister Yevhen Nyshchyuk said in remarks carried by the Tass news agency that Ukraine, a war-torn country mired in a severe economic recession, would spend about $45 million on hosting Eurovision.
This is the second time the Ukrainian capital has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest; it previously hosted the show in 2005.
The Ukrainian Organization Committee picked Kyiv over Odesa and Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk) to host the contest. At that stage Kharkiv, Kherson and Lviv stood down, allowing Kyiv, Dnipro and Odesa to continue their bids for final consideration.
Organisers said they were “still discussing” candidates, but fans speculated Ukraine might pull out of the contest for financial reasons.
“After a thorough selection process, we are very pleased to be announcing today that NTU will be working with Kyiv as host city for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest”, said EBU Executive Supervisor Jon Ola Sand. The committee and representatives from the EBU then reviewed and inspected the final city hopefuls and have now declared Kyiv the host for 2017.
Tatars are ethnic Muslims who were accused by Stalin of collaborating with the Nazis and transported in cattle cars from Crimea to far-flung regions of the Soviet Union – a journey that almost half the people failed to survive.
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One of the longest running television shows in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest, will hold its 62nd edition in Ukraine.
