Eurovision 2008 Winner Russia!
Actually Belgrade won. Perfect organization, magnificent show and first time that there were 43 contestants (the biggest number of countries so far) and two semi-finals.
The basketball legend Vlade Divac threw a ball in the audience announcing the start of voting and we came till the end of voting with famous Goran Bregovic.
At the beginning it looked as if Greece was going to win and after Icelandic votes they had equal number of votes like Russia.
After first 20 countries voted the result was as follows:
Russia 130 points
Greece 123
Armenia 92
Czech Republic will remember this evening for sure because the announcer of their votes mixed up 10 and 12 points which eventually were meant for Armenia.
When there were two countries left till the end of voting Russia had 53 points more than Greece.
Dima Bilan believed and won with 272 points bringing the first Eurovision victory to Russia!
We can safely say that the famous pattern – bloc voting was at its peak this year.
Nicole (UK) on Sun, 24th Aug 2008 5:55 pm
I think Dima deserved to win Eurovision! Amazing singer. Amazing song.
I am so f*cking fed up of all you saying that these singers are winning because of bloc voting!!!!.
Russia was an amazing song. So was Ukraine. Armenia etc etc. Dunno about Greece this year… But they put their heart an soul into these performances! And then for you guys to turn around saying oh man this performance won because of bloc voting just cause you don’t like it!
Let these countries have a chance. Maybe other countries such as France, the UK and Spain should put more effort into their performance cause they were all rubbish this year. The countries that put effort into it will come out so much better.
I mean honestly. Did France, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Estonia and Bosnia HONESTLY think that they could win his year?
Congratulations Dima! You deserved this!
jonti_swe on Mon, 1st Sep 2008 2:27 pm
I hope they didn’t think so….lol
TNT on Tue, 2nd Dec 2008 3:59 am
Look I know it is very trendy to talk about political block voting and for the UK to bemoan it’s performance but the simple truth is ALL of the Eastern European countries take the competition much more seriously than the UK and not only pick their entries MONTHS before the UK but also then play it at home and abroad for MONTHS building up to the competition. It is no surprise then when countries close by vote for a song they already know and like is it?
Why no one in the UK actually gets this point bemuses me because it is clear as can be when even I , a Brit, don’t know what our entry is 2 weeks ahead of the competition let along 2 months.
S’nuff said
DaNiCa on Tue, 26th May 2009 1:59 pm
DIMA DESERVED TO WIN!HIS SONG WAS THE BEST,AND THERE IS NO POLITICAL VOTING!
HE HAVE VERY MUCH FANS ALL OVER THE WORLD,AND HE SINGS AMAZING!
WE BELIEVED IN YOU DIMA.
also,i m not from Russia,i m from Serbia
Dima je najbolji.Svaka cast Rusiji i Diminoj delegaciji.Drago mi je sto je Rusija pobedila u Beogradu!