It is a soulful ballad about love and loss, sung by a pretty soprano who made her first recordings at the age of just nine.

Now Ukraine’s Susana Jamaladinova has won the 61st Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with her song, 1944 that laments Stalin's deportation of more than 240,000 ethnic Tatars from Ukraine's Crimea region during the Second World War.

While her entry earned huge applause when it beat five other rivals in a live television show, it did not go down so well in Russia, to whom is a none-too-subtle rebuke for the invasion of Crimea two years ago.