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DONETSK – The buzz surrounding the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv has barely created a ripple in eastern Ukraine after being banned by Russian TV — the only broadcasters aired in the war-ravaged region.

This vacuum has left enthusiastic teenage music fans like Maria Chkhan with no alternative but to turn to the one source of unfettered news and entertainment embraced by millennials the world over: the internet.

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