The Eurovision song contest has always been political - but never more so than this year.
The perennial issue of tactical voting has been supplanted by friction between two competitor nations - Russia and Ukraine – who had been prone to awarding each other healthy scores.
Watch this montage of some of the most memorable Eurovision hits (and misses) of the past 25 years - and see how the political climate in Europe has coloured its gaudiest annual spectacle
Watch this montage of some of the most memorable Eurovision hits (and misses) of the past 25 years - and see how the political climate in Europe has coloured its gaudiest annual spectacle
