Russian singer Dima Bilan has won the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade.

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In order of announcement:
Ukraine. Ani Lorak - Ukraine was drawn 18th in the final.
Croatia. Kraljevi Ulice - Croatia was drawn 9th in the final.
Albania. Olta Boka - Albania was drawn 3rd in the final.
Iceland. Euroband - Iceland was drawn 11th in the final.
Georgia. Diana Gurtskaya - Georgia was drawn 17th in the final.
Denmark. Simon Mathew - Denmark was drawn 16th in the final.
Sweden. Charlotte Perrelli - Sweden was drawn 15th in the fina.
Latvia. Pirates of The Sea - Latvia was drawn 14th in the final.
Turkey. Mor ve Ötesi - Turkey was drawn 12th in the final.
Portugal. Vânia Fernandes - Portugal was drawn 13th in the final.

In order of announcement:
Greece. Kalomoira - Greece was drawn 21st in the Final.
Romania. Nico & Vlad - Romania was drawn 1st in the Final.
Bosnia and Herzegovina. Laka - Bosnia and Herzegovina was drawn 6th in the Final.
Finland. Teräsbetoni - Finland was drawn 8th in the Final.
Russia. Dima Bilan - Russia was drawn 24th in the Final.
Israel. Boaz - Israel was drawn 7th in the Final.
Azerbaijan. Elnur & Samir - Azerbaijan was drawn 20th in the Final.
Armenia. Sirusho - Armenia was drawn 5th in the Final.
Poland. Isis Gee - Poland was drawn 10th in the Final.
Norway. Maria - Norway was drawn 25th in the Final.

On Monday, April, 28 there will take place a special Spanish dance competition that aims to select three backing dancers who will perform together with Rodolfo Chikiliocuatre, Disco and Gráfica on the Belgrade stage on May,24.

Dancing Chiki Chiki is hosted by the famous actor and comedian Santiago Segura, who is responsible for the lyrics of the Spanish entry Baila el chiki chik as well. The competition will be highlighted by Spanish broadcaster on TVE1 at 22.00 CET and will find out the six finalists who made it to the final stage of this special program.

Three of participants then will be selected to join Rodolfo Chikilicuatre and his two main dancers on their mission to win Eurovision 2008 in Belgrade. The three lucky dancers will follow the instructions of Maite Marcos, who will be the Spanish choreographer for Event 2008.

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The Serbian Broadcaster RTS and EBU have launched an entirely different Eurovision Song Contest 2008 logo. After numerous of unfavorable comments about the first idea, they have come with entirely new conception.

It is much more professionally done this time. The new theme is based on the Confluence, and are used the colors of the Serbian flag –white, blue and red. According to the creative team the main idea is like the rivers Sava and Danube flow together in Belgrade, so will the people from all over the world and the music meet in this place. As a center of the logo, has been used the most popular in the world music symbol - the treble clef.

This year’s slogan is “The confluence of sound”. It is not typical Serbian but is very appropriate.

On Monday, January 28th will be held the draw, where it will be decided in which of the two semi finals will perform the participating countries of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade. This show is hosted by the Serbian national broadcaster RTS. It will start at 13:00 CET.

The 38 countries will be drawn in six pots. This will be based on the voting patterns between 2004 and 2007. In to the first semi final will be on May 20th will be drawn half of the countries in the six pots. The other half of the countries will go to the second semi final. It will be held on May 22nd. The show will be carried on by famous Serbian sportsmen.

During the drawing show, Zeljko Joksimovic will perform. Also it will be decided which of the two semi finals the hosting country Serbia and the Big Four (Germany, France, Spain and UK) will be obliged to vote and broadcast.

As we all know up to now there are several countries that are recognized as part of the finalists… These are Serbia, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Then it was pronounced that there will be two semi-finals held simultaneously on Thursday, 22^nd May 2008 in Belgrade.

 The semi-finalist are already known but still haven’t pronounced the time of their Junior Eurovision Contest. Here I can show you a list of the dates when the finals of the particular country will be held.

Albania – 16^th December 2007

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San Marino is a microstate and is possibly entering the contest for the first time this year.

But this can change for the next several years as the Sammarinese Broadcaster has entered the European Broadcaster Union and they are thinking of entering the contest. They considered joining in 2007, but some of their Italian stakeholders didn’t support the idea. In a year now they seem to have changed their minds and now San Marino is a possible entrant for the Europe’s favourite song contest Eurovision 2008.

San Marino is a small country located near Italy and is known as the oldest republic. Although San Marino is a microstate it won’t be a problem for them to participate in Eurovision 2008. The history shows that there are other microstates that have already won the contest such as Monaco in 1971.

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The location of Eurovision Song Contest 2008 is already known. As the host this year is Serbia and the capital Belgrade the happening will be at Beogradska Arena (Belgrade Arena).

Beogradska Arena is one of the European biggest halls that has a capacity of twenty thousands seats for the spectators. This hall is highly developed on a technological level. Vlado Slavica, the head architect, designed the arena at over 48 thousand square meters in six floors.

Beogradska arena has luxury areas, VIP places and those for the regular visitors. In the 68 luxury area there are 768. As the Eurovision 2008 contest is coming all these areas are pre-built so that there can be an interview area and television link too. The press centre can hold up to 250 journalists and by the expectations it should be bigger. There is a possibility to build another press centre at the car park, which would be similar to that built in Kiev 2005.

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Palestinian National TV channel get the greatest support from the president Mahmud Abas to take part in the campaign for Eurovision 2008 contest. The Palestinian Autonomy is doing their best so that they can take part in Eurovision 2008.

The participation of Palestine in the contest is done so that everyone from the European countries know that Palestine is an autonomy, although still not country.

The Palestinian national TV channel needs permission from European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to be a broadcaster. They have already asked for a membership in EBU. They have to approve among other TV channels, known as broadcasters too.

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For the 53^rd time the most interesting song contest, ‘Eurovision’, will be held in Serbia. This year it will be in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, because the winner from last year’s contest was the Serbian song – Molitva.

Last year the song ‘Molitva ’ was presented by the Serbian singer Marija Serifovic. Afterwards this song is recorded in several different languages – English, Finnish and Russian.

Having won the first place Marija Serifovic gained the opportunity Eurovision 2008 contest to be held in Belgrade. The contest will be held in Belgrade Arena, which is one of the largest hall in Europe. This hall has about twenty thousand seats, that hopefully will be enough to gather together the audience for the entire show.

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