Not just running around without panties: Zakharova spoke about the Eurovision 2025 contest

The organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest, judging by the performance of the current year's winner, Austrian artist JJ (Johannes Pitch), are gradually starting to move away from outrageous. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

"I used to follow Eurovision, but this year I only saw the song that won," she told the NSN portal.

In her opinion, the organizers of the contest finally began to understand what they were being told and began to return "to normality."

"They did not go in the direction of outrageous. It was a song, it was music, and not just running around the stage without panties," Zakharova concluded.

As reported by EADaily, the winner of the 69th International Song Contest "Eurovision-2025" according to the results of the audience voting was the representative of Austria with the creative name JJ (Johannes Pitch). He is a graduate of the vocal school at the Vienna Opera, and is currently continuing his studies at the University of Music and Art of Vienna. His song Wasted Love combines the features of pop music and opera, some media call the genre of composition pop opera.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Eurovision evokes a desire to return to normal songs about normal human interest.

"So the process is underway," the minister believes.