Watch Dima Bilan's perfomance as a guest at New Wave 2009:
New Wave 2009 - Dima Bilan - Killing me softly
New Wave 2009 - Dima Bilan - Lonely
Dima Bilan @ VIP Zone - New wave 2009 - Number One Fan
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Dima Bilan singing Number One Fan and Believe at the Junior Eurovision '08 as a special guest.
Dima Bilan suprise us once again skating on ice, only this time much better.
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Dima Bilan and Elena Berezhnaya on ice - 1st video
Dima Bilan, the Russian representative and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 took part in a show called Stars on ice, where he danced on the ice together with the Olympic champion Elena Berezhnaya.
The concept of the show is to take a professional ice-skater and a famous artist or a singer from Russia, who never stood on ice before. The pairs train together all week long and on Saturday nights they show the audience and tele-audience what they have achieved.
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Dima Bilan again on ice -2nd video
Slovakian public broadcaster STV announced that it will bring Slovakia back to the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow next year. It will be the first time that the country participates in eleven years.
Slovakia has entered the competition three times in the past, with poor results on each occasion.
They entered for the first time in 1994 with Martin Durinda and Tublatanka singing Nekonečná pieseň, winning just 15 points. In total, they have picked up only 42 points.
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Dima Bilan, winner of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest, will be the special guest star at the 6th Junior Eurovision Song Contest on the 22nd November in Lemesos, Cyprus!
He will also meet all this year’s participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest to offer them some last-minute advice after Friday night's dress rehearsal. During the live final on the Saturday night, Dima will also perform his winning song Believe on the stage of the Spyros Kyrianou Arena.
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eurovision.tv reports:
During a meeting in Moscow, the EBU Reference Group of the Eurovision Song Contest decided to introduce a voting model of a mix between televoting and jury votes in the 2009 Final.
No change will be made in the voting during the Semi-Finals of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Details on the balance between jury and televoting outcome are still to be determined in the months to come.
A survey amongst delegation heads from represented countries revealed that a majority is in favor of such mixed model.
A mixed voting system also has great support amongst the fans of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Svante Stockselius, Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest said:
"Nothing is more democratic than the vote of the public. But a jury takes the opportunity to listen to the songs several times, before they make up their minds. In Belgrade, we saw a difference in judgment of the public and the back-up juries, and we believe a combination will make the show more interesting."
Dima Bilan singing Protiv pravil in Vilnius, Lithuania. 12.09.2008
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The Reference Group of the Eurovision Song Contest has officially approved the Russian capital as the Host City of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, as proposed by Channel One.
The governing body of the song contest also approved the Olympiski Arena as the venue of the event in May 2009.
Svante Stockselius, EBU's Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest, said to Eurovision.tv:
"Moscow is an impressive city and the proposed venue gives us the fantastic possibility to put everything under one roof. We are confident that Channel One Russia will organize a fantastic 54th Eurovision Song Contest."
t.A.T.u. confirmed with a press release that their third studio album has been titled "Veselye Ulybki"- "Happy Smiles", featuring 12 tracks.
A press release states:
"For almost a year a working title of the album was "Upravleniye Otbrosami" - "Waste Management". But a month before the release - for the sake of ironic smile of those, who understand – the title changed. The essence, however, remained."
Next year's Eurovision Song Contest is under threat after ex-Soviet states called for a boycott after Russia invaded Georgia.
Russia's Dima Bilan won the 2008 contest thanks to ex-pats in former Soviet-bloc states banding together to vote for him.
As a result, the 2009 contest will take place in Moscow.
But Baltic nations Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia may pull out of the annual TV show.
A poll in Estonia has already backed the boycott, while pressure is also rising for a Polish withdrawal.
Estonia's culture minister Laine Janes, said: "Solidarity must exist with Lithuania and Latvia to show consolidated support for Georgia."
The European Broadcasting Union, who run Eurovision, have said the Georgian conflict cannot be allowed to wreck the contest.
Spokesman Svante Stockselius said: "These issues should not be linked. We are organising a non-political event and if the hosting country is able to ensure the safety of participants there is no reason why it should not be allowed to host the finals."
The potential eastern boycott is another problem for Eurovision, who are already struggling to allay the fears of the western countries that they now no longer have a chance in the contest.
Sir Terry Wogan confirmed last month he would be stepping down as the BBC's Eurovision host after 37 years. The 70-year-old presenter has tired of the "political voting" that determined the outcome.
Marc Jacobs latest muses are the two girls that make up the band t.A.T.u., Julia Volkova and Lena Katina. They're the new faces of his Fall and Winter lines.
But it's not all about their collaboration, t.A.T.u. will also carry out the casting Девушка Марка, in which winner will go to New York to perform on catwalk of one of the best fashion designers!
Take a peek at this behind-the-scenes look at their photo shoot!
Behind the Scenes of Marc Jacobs photoshoot - photos
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European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is not amused over calls of prominent Estonian politicians to boycott next year’s Eurovision song contest hosted by Russia for Georgian conflict.
Svante Stockselius, executive of EBU that is organising the annual Eurovision Song Contest, told Postimees that Eurovision was an non-political event and that politicians have no right to decide whether to boycott it or not.
Stockselius said that he could not understand the proposal made by the Estonian Minister of Culture Laine Jänes and by chairman of the National Broadcasting Association Margus Allikmaa that Estonia could boycott next year’s Eurovision finals in Moscow over the conflict in Georgia.
"These issues should not be linked. We are organizing a non-political event and if the hosting country is able to ensure the safety of participants, there is no reason why it should not be allowed to host the finals," said Stockselius.
The EBU official added that if Estonia wishes to stay away from the Eurovision song festival in 2009, it is up to the country. "We have many members who don’t participate every year and who return later," added Stockselius. -source-
Estonia itself hosted the Eurovision contest in 2002 after winning the 2001 edition.
Culture Minister of Lithuania, Jonas Jucas says that it is too early to speak about the opportunity to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow with intention to express the protest over the Russian aggression against Georgia.
According to Jucas- "Spontaneous decisions might aggravate the efforts of diplomats to harmonize the conflict. It is not right time to speak about that," the culture minister noted. -source-
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Watch Dima Bilan's performance at New Wave 2008 music festival - Jurmala, Latvia.
Watch Filipp Korokorov's performance at New Wave 2008 music festival - Jurmala, Latvia.
Alla Pugachyova and Maxim Galkin at New Wave 2008 -Jurmala singing "Громоотводы" (Lightning).
Serebro (ESC 2007) performing in premiere a new song "Dirty Kiss" at New Wave 2008 music festival - Jurmala, Latvia.
First Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov will head the organising committee for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
"The composition of the organising committee will be approved this or, at the latest, next week," Zhukov said on Wednesday.
He said not even tentative cost estimates for the event had been made yet.
"There are no estimates yet. We have to create the organising committee first," Zhukov said.
On Monday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the Eurovision Song Contest would be held in Moscow, taking into account the level of its preparedness, the development of infrastructure and the possibility of minimising the costs.[...]
Moscow authorities said they are ready to organise and hold the Eurovision-2009 song contest in the Russian capital.
Moscow will do it “at the highest level”, an official in the city administration said.
"We have big experience of holding such events. We can do it. We will receive the guests and provide them with transportation and accommodation," he said.[...]
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday chose Moscow as the host city for next year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Vladimir Putin made the announcement at a meeting of the Russian inner Cabinet.
Several Russian cities had applied to host the event. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said the strongest rival bid had come from St. Petersburg.
Zhukov, charged with overseeing preparations for the event, said Moscow's Olimpiysky sports complex would be the likely venue.
Vladimir Putin, a St. Petersburg native, pointed to Moscow's developed infrastructure and the possibility of reducing costs as reasons for the choice.
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