Vânia Fernandes will represent Portugal in Eurovision Song Contest in May.
The final results from the national competition are:
In 1st place: Senhora Do Mar - Vânia Fernandes - 20% of vote
In 2nd place: Obrigatório Ter - Alex Smith - 14% of vote
In 3rd place: Em Água e Sal - Marco Rodrigues - 12% of vote

There are two new names in the Russian National final. Their names are well known to the Eurovision Song Contest audience.

Polina Smolova presented Belarus in 2006 but did not qualify for the semi final. This year she will try her luck with Russia. The other name is Sergey Lazarev. He takes part in the national final for first time but his name was highly tipped.

The Russian national final will be on March 8th and will start at 18.40 CET.

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Due to the political developments in Armenia the government has imposed a State of Emergency.

The Armenian national final that was scheduled for March 8th is canceled. The final was set to take place in Academic Opera but in this situation it will be filmed at a television studio. ARMTV’s spokesman said: “It will be unfair and not correct towards people who have recently lost their relatives during these latest developments in Yerevan to hold the concert. Instead, ARMTV is arranging a National Final TV Show. It will take place at the same day and at same time”.

The show should start at 18.30 CET this Saturday.

Expert jury appointed by RTCG - Montenegro broadcaster, has chosen the song thet Stefan Filipovich will perform. Among another 4 songs “Ne daj mi da poludim” has been selected. Composer of the song is Grigor Koprov, author is Ognen Nedelkovich and arranger is Vladimir Dojcinovski. The same song has been recorded in English under the name “Never forget that I love you”.

Probably the song will be performed on March 8th on televised show.

Georgians decided Diana Gurtskaya to represent their country in Eurovision Song Contest 2008. There she will perform the song called “Peace will come” in the second semifinal on May 22nd.

The results from the final are:
Diana Gurtskaya - “Peace will come” - 39.4%
Salome Gasviani - “Share your love” - 32.9%
Irakli Pirtskhalava - “Freedom” - 8.3%
3G (Tako, Nini & Kristine) - “I’m free” - 5.3%
Tika Patsatsia - “Never Change” - 4.0%
Salome Korkotashvili - “Captaine” - 3.0%
Teatroni - “Sakartvelo itsvevs megobrebs” - 2.3%
Vivo - “Life” - 1.3%
Aleko Berdzenishvili - “The beautiful girl” - 1.3%
Tako Gachechiladze - “Me and my funky” - 0.9%
Tamta Chelidze - “Give me your love” - 0.8%
Guga Aptsiauri - “Don’t look at me” - 0.5%

BBC will broadcast both semi finals on 22nd and 24th of May. The announcement was made on the UK final. The British public will be able to vote only in the second semi final. The show will be aired live on digital chanel BBC 3 as it is in recent years. The show on May 24th will be broadcasted live on BBC1.

Andy Abraham will represent UK in Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in May. He will perform the song “Ever if”, written by Paul Wilson, Andy Abraham and Andy Watkins. Being part of the Big 4, UK will take part in the Final on 24th May in Belgrade.

After the Latvian final Eirodziesma, the audience decided to send to Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade the Pirates. To the Super Final were sent Andris Erglis, Pirates of the sea and Aisha. After the second round of voting, the Pirates were chosen to represent Latvia. Aleksandra Kurusova, Alexandra Kurusova and Janis Vaišla are the pirates.

Second place was for Aisha and third came Andris Erglis.

Lorena C has filled the tenth place in the Spanish national final for Eurovision 2008. She has been chosen to replace Null System, who was disqualified for breaching Eurovision rules. She will perform her song “Piensa Gay”.

 The song “Mourning” by Null System have been disqualified from the Spain national final. The information was confirmed by the Spanish national broadcaster RTVE.

There was information from readers that the song appeared to have been available to purchase since July 2007. Investigation has been done and it was proved that Null System broke the rules.

The jury is working on selecting a new song to replace “Mourning”.

The Spanish national broadcaster will be airing the national final next Saturday. The show will be held in Madrid, in Avenida de Burgos in Estudios Bunuel. The show will start at 22.30 CET. It will be broadcast by TVE International America few hour later, too.

 In Eurocancion 2008 will compete 10 participants. 5 of the singers have been selected by the public through internet and another 5 have been selected by jury. The main idea of each one of them will be to take the golden ticket and to represent Spain in Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade.

A special show will organize the Andorran national broadcaster RTVA. It will be on March 12th with Gisela.

In special interviews, Gasela will talk about the promotional champagne of “Casanova” and will tell interesting information about the making of the video. The show will last 45 minutes. Later in Cataluña the show will be aired by TV3.

The Spanish broadcaster TVE has announced five singers who will join the public favorites in the national final for Eurovision 2008.

The jury favorites are:
Ell*as -”100×100″
Null system- “Mourning” 
Marzok Mangui- “Caramelo”
D-vine- “I do you” 
Innata- “Me encantada bailar”

The complite list for the Spanish national final on March 8th is:
Rodolfo Chikilicuatre - “Baila el chiki chiki”
La Casa Azul - “La revolución sexual”
Arkaitz - “Un olé”
Coral - “Todo está en tu mente”
Bizarre - “Si pudiera”
Ell*as -”100×100″
Null system- “Mourning”
Marzok Mangui- “Caramelo”
D-vine- “I do you”
Innata- “Me encantada bailar”

At the end of spectacular show in Greece, was decided Kalomoira to represent her country in Eurovision Song Contest 2008. The song “Secret Combination” is written by Poseidonas Giannopoulos and Kostas Pantzis. The winner was chosen by jury - 40% and televoting - 60%.

Greece is very successful country in Eurovision Song Contest. The country in the last years is always among the first 10 countries. This year the country will take part in the first semi final on May 20th.

 The national broadcaster NDR revealed the five celebrities who will present the participants on the stage on the German national final which will be held on March 6th. The celebrities should convince the public to vote for them. The both semi finals will be aired.

Oliver Pocher (comedian) for Marquess
Marc Bator (news anchor) for the No Angels
This year the supporters will be:
Katja Ebstein (singer) for Carolin Fortenbacher
Kim Fisher (comedian) for Tommy Reeve
Tetje Mierendorf (comedian) for Cinema Bizarre