Ukrainian singer Jamala's song about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars has been crowned the winner of this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
The 32-year-old singer made a plea for "peace and love" as she collected her trophy after beating Australia - which competed for the second time after appearing as a guest last year - into second place and Russia into third.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hailed Jamala's "unbelievable" victory with her song about Russian-annexed Crimea.
"Yes!!!" Poroshenko tweeted. "An unbelievable performance and victory! All of Ukraine gives you its heartfelt thanks, Jamala."
Jamala is a member of the Muslim Tatar minority of Crimea who saw her great-grandmother deported along with 240,000 others by Stalin in the penultimate year of World War II.
Russia had earlier protested Ukraine's entry in the contest because of its "political" subtext - a violation of the contest's rules.
But Eurovision ruled that Jamala was "historical" in nature and allowed her song to compete.
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