Russia is desperate to win the Eurovision song contest. Everybody else is desperate they lose.

MOSCOW — In any other year, in any other international song contest, Polina Gagarina and her uplifting ballad, “A Million Voices,” might be the odds-on favorite. But in 2015, there’s just something about Russia’s representative to the Eurovision Song Contest singing about starting fresh and linking arms in peace and harmony that is sticking in […]









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