The victory in the Eurovision Song Contest was won by Maneskin from Italy

The Italian group Maneskin became the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, whose final was held on the evening of May 22 in Rotterdam. The representative of Russia, the singer of the Manizh, according to the results of the vote, is in 9th place. In total, representatives of 26 countries performed in the final.

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The Italian group scored 524 points following the voting results. After the vote of the professional jury, she was only in 4th place, but the vote of the audience brought her victory.

For the first time since 2006, a group won a group that performed a song in the style of rock and roll at Eurovision. The song was performed in Italian. Italy was last won in 1990.

The manage that performed the song Russian Woman scored 204 points. 12 points were given to her by Moldova viewers. Russian viewers gave 12 points to representatives of Cyprus.

"I did everything so that the Russian language sounded in 39 countries at the same time! We showed that our country is different, multinational, but we are together!" - Minizh commented on her performance.

• Manizh - Russian singer of Tajik descent. After her nomination for the competition - she became the winner of the voting of the audience, which was organized by the Channel One - xenophobic comments about the performer began to appear on the Internet. Her song was also criticized by some politicians.
• The song is dedicated to the fate of Russian women, who, according to the performer, do not allow centuries -old traditions to "go out and free." Attention was attracted by her dress, sewn from fabrics that were sent by women of different nationalities from all over Russia, as well as the screen on which hundreds of women from Russia sang along during the performance. The manage launched a project on Instagram about them. Among them are actresses Chulpan Khamatova and Alexander Bortich, singer Tatyana Bulanova, founder of the Vera Foundation Nyuta Federmeser, Novaya Gazeta correspondent Elena Kostyuchenko, editor of the DOXA project Alla Gutnikova and many others.

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