Uno Silberg said he’ll be damned if he’s going to stand idly by while Estonia, ten years after escaping from the clutches of one union, turns around and joins another.
He needn’t have bothered spelling out how he sees the Soviet Union and European Union as the same sort of sovereignty usurping monolith. One symbol adopted [...]

By Michael Tarm
An Estonian coat-check girl stood mouth agape as three transvestites, Slovenia’s Eurovision entry, swept down a staircase at the Estonia Concert Hall and strode, high heels clickety-clacking on the floorboards, into the women’s bathroom.
She, as most other Estonians, had never seen anything like it, not just the homosexuals in their trademark red [...]

The new edition of CITY PAPER magazine, one of the only European publications to predict that Latvia would win the Eurovision Song Contest last year, has pegged Russia as having the No. 1 song this year—and put Estonia in the second place slot. The Baltic-based magazine said Sweden is bringing by far the worst song [...]

Singers, Song reviews, Rankings
Turkey won the Eurovision Song Contest in Riga, just edging out the Belgians and the heavy favored Russians.
In the order performers appeared in Riga:
1. Iceland
Singer:Birgitta Haukdal
Song: Open Your Heart
This song is an orchestrated, guitar-driven tune with that slightly annoying uplifting quality of so many Eurovision songs. But as annoyingly uplifting songs go, [...]

So, you think it’s just a song contest, huh? Wrong!—at least according to Philippe Le Guern of France’s Lill University. In an exhaustive academic analysis of the mother of all song contests, he concluded: “The Eurovision Song Contest constitutes a landmark in the collective memory associated to TV history and thus [...]