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Month: February 2022

Eurovisión cancela la participación de Rusia en el Festival de la Canción de 2022 tras invasión a Ucrania

Marysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – Rusia no participará en el Festival de la Canción Eurovisión 2022, según dieron a conocer los organizadores a través de un comunicado. “El comité ejecutivo de la Unión Europea de Radiodifusión (EBU por sus siglas en inglés) tomó la decisión tras una recomendación de los organizadores del Festival de la

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy shares another update from Ukraine: The ‘situation is pretty dire’

By Lisa Respers France, CNN “Dancing With the Stars” veteran and professional dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy has shared another update from Ukraine. Chmerkovskiy, who immigrated to the United States from Ukraine with his family in the 1990s, posted two new videos to Instagram Friday from Kyiv, where he was currently working on the reality competition series

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UEFA moves Champions League Final from St. Petersburg as sporting world reacts to Russian invasion of Ukraine

By Jack Bantock and Homero de la Fuente, CNN UEFA announced that this year’s Champions League Final will no longer take place in St. Petersburg following an extraordinary meeting of the governing body’s Executive Committee on Friday. The 2022 final was scheduled to be held at Krestovsky Stadium, which is sponsored by Russian state-owned company

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Russia puts ‘partial restriction’ on Facebook access

By RAF CASERT and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Russian authorities announced the “partial restriction” of access to Facebook after the social media network banned the accounts of several Kremlin-backed media over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said Friday it demanded that Facebook lift the bans it placed Thursday

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