On February 19, 2009 Georgia has announced its entry at the Eurovision 2009 to be held in Moscow, a song performed by a group "Stephan & 3G" called "We Do Not Wanna Put IN".
The song uses a play on words against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin:
We Don't Wanna Put In / The negative move, / It's killin' the groove," using a phrase that sounds like "We don't want Putin."
Ukraine Eurovision act Verka Serduchka in 2007 lost Russian music industry contracts after the song's chorus, "Russia Good Bye," was taken as an allusion to Ukraine's split from Russia in the 2004 Orange Revolution.
"Orange" song performed by GreenJolly "Razom nas bahato", Eurovision 2005
In 2006 Belarusian act Polina Smolova performed a song which praised the authoritarian country's ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, with the line "Say me no more that he's a finished liar, I feel so safe, 'cause I know he's good."
"It's a song contest and it's about uniting Europe, not dividing it. Uniting Europe in music - that was always the idea. Let's have fun together, basically," Jarmo Siim (Estonia), Communication and PR officer told EUobserver.
But are we witnessing the reverse of this trend?
EUObserver
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