@celesteh @dona And they also absolutely broke contest rules in the process - which was why this came to a head the way it did in the first place.
A one-year ban specifically citing that would have protected the contest *as contest* - actually better, because now we know the genocide stans will consistently distort the televote to the point that the competition meta is Oops! All Jurybait and that likely makes for a less fun set of entries.
In the 2010s Eurovision was at the heart of my pop universe, to the point of me sometimes watching national selection shows in languages I don't understand. Those days are categorically gone, almost certainly never to return.