Jamala wins Eurovision 2016 song contest

Ukraine scored 534 points, Australia finished second with 511 points, while Russia was third with 491 points.

Ukrainian singer of Crimean Tatar descent Jamala has become the winner of the Eurovision 2016 song contest in Stockholm, Sweden, with her entry "1944," which narrates Stalin's deportation of more than 240,000 ethnic Crimean Tatars from Ukraine's Crimea peninsula during the Second World War.

Contestants from 26 countries were competing in the final race of the 61st Eurovision for victory after two semi-finals: 10 from each semi-final, Sweden as last year's winner and the Eurovision Big Five, which are the five main sponsoring countries. Thus, singers from Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, and France were on the Stockholm stage on Saturday night.

Ukraine scored 534 points, Australia finished second with 511 points, while Russia was third with 491 points.

Nine-time Grammy winner, American pop singer Justin Timberlake, invited as a guest performer, introduced his new single "Can't Stop The Feeling" during the interval of the show, which also included a sketch featuring British actors Sir Ian McKellan and Sir Derek Jacobi as their ITV Vicious characters.