russia\u2019s propaganda machine cannot make up its mind: was it \u201cgreat russia,\u201d represented by philip kirkorov, that secured Bulgaria\u2019s victory at Eurovision 2026, or is the contest itself \u201copen satanism\u201d unworthy of \u201cspiritual\u201d russia, as russian foreign minister sergey lavrov claims?<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f It started when sanctioned singer philip kirkorov pompously declared that the victory of Bulgarian singer Dara was thanks to his team, which helped with staging the performance. Z-propaganda channels immediately picked up the narrative about the \u201cgreatness of russian musical expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f However, official Bulgaria and the singer\u2019s producer quickly dismissed these russian fantasies, stating that they do not know who kirkorov is and what his connection to the victory is.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f russia is desperately trying to associate itself with global events and claim any form of relevance, but in reality remains deeply isolated. The terrorist state attempts to engage in \u201ccultural diplomacy\u201d but is repeatedly rejected by the civilized world \u2014 any association with russia is toxic and is immediately disavowed.<\/p>\n
The reason is not the kremlin\u2019s invented \u201crussophobia,\u201d but the fact that putin, by waging an aggressive war against Ukraine and threatening all of Europe, has ultimately turned russia into a rogue state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russia\u2019s propaganda machine cannot make up its mind: was it \u201cgreat russia,\u201d represented by philip kirkorov, that secured Bulgaria\u2019s victory at Eurovision 2026, or is the contest itself \u201copen satanism\u201d unworthy of \u201cspiritual\u201d russia, as russian foreign minister sergey lavrov claims? \u25ab\ufe0f It started when sanctioned singer philip kirkorov pompously declared that the victory of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}