Russia has won the Eurovision Song Contest. Dima Bilan’s song, Believe, notched up 272 points from Europe’s voters, comfortably beating Ukraine’s 230 points into second place.
Watch Dima Bilan’s Russian Eurovision Video Believe below:
Russia’s Eurovision Song Contest victory crowns a spectacular week for Russia - in the space of eight days Russia have won the World Ice Hockey Championships, Zenit St Petersburg have won the UEFA Cup and now, Dima Bilan has won Eurovision.
So successful have Russia been that poor old Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s new President must be wondering if his job is just about telephoning people to offer his congratulations.
Anyway, in honour of Russia’s victory, I’ve updated the Every Russian Eurovision Video Ever page, to include Dima Bilan’s song, Believe.
May 25th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
in the space of eight days Russia have won the World Ice Hockey Championships, Zenit St Petersburg have won the UEFA Cup and now, Dima Bilan has won Eurovision.
Spot the odd one out, eh?
Hopefully when Russia hosts next year’s Eurovision they will take a leaf from the Ukrainians and allow visa free travel for European tourists for the summer, extending it indefinitely thereafter. It was purely because of this that I went to Yalta in summer 2005 rather than Russia.
May 25th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
”Spot the odd one out, eh?”
Yeah Tim, the UEFA Cup sure aint what it used to be:-):-)
”Hopefully when Russia hosts next year’s Eurovision they will take a leaf from the Ukrainians and allow visa free travel for European tourists for the summer, ”
That would be great, and who knows, maybe the dizzying heights of 3 visa-free days last week may have convinced them of the benefits.
Probably not though:-(
May 27th, 2008 at 3:39 am
…in the space of eight days Russia have won…
OK, got me panting and drooling patriotically all over already.
What’s next, the Stanley cup? There are Russians on both teams, whoever wins, it’s the victory for Russia!
What about the NBA title, is there a Russian anywhere? I should root for his team, I guess, for Rodina!!!
May 27th, 2008 at 7:56 am
The NBA’s Utah Jazz feature Andrei Kirilenko (AK-47):
http://www.kirilenko.ru/?lang=eng
The Lakers took care of them.
Andy!
Yuh didn’t mention CSKA Moskva’s recent FIBA Euro club team championship for the second consecutive year:
http://www.cskabasket.com/?lang=en
Note the British flag by the English language translation. Offhand, it seems like the American flag is more typically represented in such instances.
May 27th, 2008 at 8:03 am
That’s: Yuh didn’t mention CSKA Moskva’s recent FIBA Euroleague Championship for the second consecutive year.
Basketball’s version of the Champions League.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I’m sure that it was all arranged beforehand and that Bilan’s victory was bought. Special programs on TV scheduled in advanced, some comments in the media an other other clues make me think so.
Don’t want to pretend being a know-all, but I already anounced it* several hours before the contest started
*link in Spanish