It is another blow to harmony in next month’s Eurovision Song Contest.<br /><br /> Organisers Ukraine had already banned Russia’s entry from coming to Kyiv.<br /><br /> Now Russia’s Channel One says it won’t be televising the show.<br /><br /> Yulia Samoylova was barred after visiting Russian-annexed Crimea, which Kyiv considers to be occupied territory.<br /><br /> The European Broadcasting Union, which condemned the ban, offered the 27-year-old wheelchair user the chance to participate via satellite link.<br /><br /> But that idea was rejected, meaning her song Flame is Burning won’t now be heard in the contest on May 13.<br /><br /> Eurovision Song Contest: Russia pulls out over Ukraine ban https://t.co/sNBpPfkBlE— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) 13 avril 2017<br /><br /> Relations between Ukraine and Russia have been toxic since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the outbreak of separatist violence in the Donbass region.<br /><br /> Their antipathy spilled over into Eurovision last year after Ukraine’s entry Jamala won with a song about Stalin’s mass deportation of ethnic Tatars from the Crimean peninsula during the Second World War.<br /><br /> with Reuters<br />
