Buranovo Grannies to represent Russia at Eurovision

The sextet, who are from Buranovo in the Udmurt Republic in central Russia,
wrote the song themselves.

The Buranovo Grannies (AP)

Speaking to Russian television, one of the women, who called herself Granny
Olya, said the group hoped to raise funds to build a church in Buranovo.

She said: “We don’t want people to think of us as freaks. We just sing
sincerely and openly about ourselves and people always find that touching.””

This year’s contest has already been touched by controversy after Armenia
announced its withdrawal on Wednesday. Armenia and Azerbaijan, the host,
fought a war in the early 1990s over the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region.

Armenian musicians had called for a boycott after a soldier was killed at the
border.

The competition is not a stranger to political spats. In 2009, a group from
former Soviet Georgia tried to enter a song called We Don’t Want to Put In,
in reference to Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister. That followed a
brief war between the two countries in South Ossetia a year earlier.

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