Eurovision organizers on Thursday banned Belarus from participating in the competition with the song.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has demanded that Belarus submit a new song to the competition, stating that otherwise Belarus may be disqualified.
In a song called I’ll teach you, ridiculed protests against the Lukashenko regime.
Eurovision official YouTube page Belarusian song performed by the band Galasy ZMesta, viewed more than half a million times.
“I will teach you to dance after a pole, I will teach you to fish, I will teach you to walk on a pole,” sings Galasy ZMesta.
Critics of the song believe it legitimizes the Lukashenko regime.
“This is a mockery of the Belarusian people,” the news agency reported Reuters said singer Angelika Agurbash, who represented Belarus at Eurovision in 2005.
She said the song mocks everything that is happening in Belarus and it would be wrong to include members of the Lukashenko regime in Eurovision.
The Cyprus Eurovision Song Contest also received criticism this year The devil. It has been sharply criticized by the Orthodox Church in Cyprus for singing about falling in love with the devil.
41 countries will take part in the 65th International Eurovision Song Contest. The semi-finals will take place on May 18 and 20, and the final, which will feature 26 songs, will take place on May 22.
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