YEREVAN, MAY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Russia has been recognized
winner in the Eurovision - 2008 international song contest,
which was held in Belgrad on May 24. The song "Believe" of Dima
Bilan, in general, gathered 272 points. And that means that the
authoritative international contest will be held in Moscow next
year. The representative of Greece took second and that of the
Ukraine third place in the contest.
Armenia, which was taking part in the contest for the third
time, took fourth place as a result of the voting of 43
counties, irrespective of the fact that it periodically appeared
in the third place during the voting. Sirusho's "Qele, Qele"
song received the highest points: 12 points, by Belgium, France,
Poland, Czechia, Holland, Greece, Russia and Georgia. Last year
Armenia received 12 points only by Turkey and Georgia. This year
10 points were given by Cyprus, Spain and Turkey, 8 points by
Israel, Bulgaria and San Marino. 7 points were given to Armenia
by Belarus and the Ukraine, 6 points by Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Germany, 5 points by Serbia and Slovenia, 4 points by Romania, 2
points by Moldova, Albania and Sweden and 1 point by Macedonia
and Iceland. Most of the countries, who have voted for the
"Qele, qele" song, did not give any points to Armenia in the
previous contests.
It should be mentioned that in 2006-2007 the
representatives of Armenia took 8th place.