Isabel Sommerfeld, project manager of Info Belarus and member of the swedish parliament Caroline Szyber (Christian Democratic Party) today writes on the swedish media website Newsmill about Eurovision Song Contest, Belarus and how dictatorships use the contest for the purpose of spreading propaganda.

”In the semi final we had to listen to a three minute long propaganda song, that just as well could have been sung by Lukashenko him self,” Caroline and Isabel writes.

You can find the article (in swedish) here: http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2011/05/13/eurovision-song-contest-borde-s-tta-stopp-f-r-vitrysslands-propaganda.