Ukraine – The Ukraine’s representatitve, Gaitana, has sadly been subjected to racist comments by far-right in her country. According to the Global Spin blog which can be found here, Yuriy Syrotyuk, a high-ranking member of the right-wing ultranationalist Svoboda (Freedom) Party made the comments to the Kyiv Post. He said Gaitana, who has a Congolese [...]
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Ukraine – The national final has just ended in Kiev and Gaitana has been chosen as the representative for Eurovision 2012 with “Be My Guest“. 21 acts fought it out, with voting split 50-50 between public and jury. Public voting was by SMS, with only one vote per phone. Anggun, France’s representative and SinPlus, Switzerland’s, [...]
Ukraine – The final line-up for Ukraine’s national final has been announced and Matias has been disqualified. His producer, Vlad Bahinskyj, was among the jury panel during the internal pre-selection. Max Baskih went through to the final as the wildcard, after receiving most votes on the Internet. The final will take place on Saturday at [...]
Ukraine – The Ukrainian national broadcaster has revealed 20 songs that will compete in the country’s selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The national final will be held on February 18. Another two acts will be added to the list through wildcards. One will be the winners of the show “Show Number [...]
Ukraine: Renata Shtifel Competes With Song By Alyosha
Posted: December 26, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in UkraineUkraine – Renata Shtifel is hoping to represent the Ukraine at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2012 after she has submitted the song “Malaja” for the Ukrainian national broadcaster’s national selection. The lyrics were written by Alyosha, who represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The composition is by Vadim Lisitsa, who also [...]
Ukraine: 21 Acts to Compete in National Final
Posted: December 24, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in UkraineUkraine – The Ukrainian national broadcaster NTU has revealed that a total of twenty-one acts will compete in the country’s national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. 19 acts will be selected by a jury of experts out of the submissions made to NTU. One place is reserved for the winner of Inter [...]
Ukraine – One of the countries notorious for their chaotic selection process, has revealed its plans for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 today: Ukraine. Artists interested in representing the Eastern European country in Baku can submit their entries to the Ukrainian national broadcaster until December 25. A panel of music experts will then select [...]
Ukraine – After voting fraud allegations against the winner of the Ukrainian national final Mika Newton, the Ukrainian broadcaster NTU decided to hold another national final this Thursday with the Top 3 from the original one: Zlata Ognevich, Mika Newton and Jamala. Yesterday Jamala decided not to participate in the new selection and today Zlata [...]
Ukraine – The drama in Ukraine continues as Jamala announced today that she will not be taking part in the second national final this Thursday. Due to voting fraud allegations against the winner Mika Newton, NTU, the Ukrainian national broadcaster, had decided to hold another national final with the Top3 of the previous one: Jamala, [...]
Ukraine: Voting Fraud – New National Final with Mika, Jamala, Zlata On March 3
Posted: February 28, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in UkraineUkraine – It seems like things haven’t changed over the last year. The results of the national final last Saturday, in which Mika Newton was selected as the Ukrainian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 were annulled. Since Yesterday Voting Fraud allegations by leading media sites had caused a scandal in Ukraine. The final [...]
Ukraine – This Saturday Mika Newton was surprisingly chosen as Ukraine’s Eurovision representative – A decision which has caused a major upheaval. According to several media sites the result of the final could be rigged. The final result was decided by a mixture of televotes, internet votes and jury voting. Mika Newton won all three [...]
Ukraine sends “Mika Newton – Angel” to Eurovision
Posted: February 27, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in UkraineUkraine – The results are coming in minute by minute now. Ukrainians decided that Mika Newton should be the artist representing their country in Germany with the ballad “Angel”. Mika Newton won all types of voting: SMS, televote, jury and internet votes all favoured the young singer. The second place went to Zlata Ognevich , [...]
Ukraine – After the longest selection process of the 2011 season, Ukraine will finally decide whom to send to Germany. 19 artists will compete for the Ukrainian ticket to Düsseldorf. Anastasia Prikhodko who represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, as well as several past national final entrants, will be returning to [...]
Eurovision Recap (26): Eastern Perestroika
Posted: February 13, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova, UkraineRecap – This Eurovision season it seems to turn into a certainty that Eastern European countries love to change dates, selection formats and even line-ups they announced before.Here some examples (and also some national final line-ups) :
Ukraine – Jamala, one of the finalists of this year’s Ukrainian Eurovision selection has just released her preview video for her entry “Smile”. I know that she has not won yet and that it is a bit partial to give her this exposure, but I just liked the sparkling creativity of the song and the [...]
Ukraine: Withdrawal due to financial troubles?
Posted: January 24, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in UkraineUkraine – There were rumors published by ESCToday today that stated that the Ukraine might have to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest due to financial issues between the EBU and the national broadcaster NTU. The channel has to pay 2 million euro of debt to the European Broadcasting Union, which has threatened to exclude [...]
Ukraine – Another 5 acts qualified from the third semi-final in Ukraine tonight. The big Ukrainian final will be held February 27. Two of my personal favourites qualified: Jamala with her unconventional Jodl-Amy Winehouse song “Smile” and Daria Medova with the very conventional ballad “Infinity”. Alex Matias who was supposed to perform in this semi-final [...]
Ukraine – The second semi-final has just ended in Ukraine and 5 more lucky qualifiers have been chosen. 21 competitors were already chosen in prequalification rounds that were initially supposed to be the semi-finals. Now NTU has added another three semi-final to the selection process for Düsseldorf to reduce the finalists to 15. Tonight 8 [...]
Ukraine -Apparently NTU, the Ukrainian national broadcaster, has changed its selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. The shows that have been broadcast the last couple of Sundays and which were supposed to be semi-finals have now been turned into quarter-finals. The first actual semi-final was broadcast today. First the qualifiers (from all artist [...]
Ukraine – Last week the last qualification round of the Ukrainian selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf was aired. Apparently there will be another show tonight. There is no information about the content of the show. They could reveal the winners of the televoting: In each semi-final 7 acts competed and 3 [...]
Ukraine: Denis Povali, Jamala and Tatiana Vorzheva qualify
Posted: November 28, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in UkraineUkraine – Tonight the last (prerecorded) semi-final of the Ukrainian selection was broadcast on 1TV. The last four weeks 12 artists already qualified from the first four semi-finals and tonight another 6 competed (Masha Sobko had withdrawn before the show). From every semi-final three competitors qualified by means of jury voting and one participant will [...]
Ukraine – Tonight the last semi-final of the Ukrainian selection will be aired on 1TV. The last four weeks 12 artists already qualified from the first four semi-finals and tonight another 7 will compete. From every semi-final three will qualify by means of jury voting and one participant will qualify by televoting. The names of [...]
Ukraine – Tonight the fourth semi-final of the Ukrainian selection was broadcast on 1TV and three more artists qualified for the final in Kiev. The last three weeks nine artists already qualified from the first, second and third semi-final and tonight another 7 will compete. From every semi-final three will qualify by means of jury [...]
Ukraine – Tonight the fourth semi-final of the Ukrainian selection will be broadcast on 1TV. The last three weeks nine artists already qualified from the first, second and third semi-final and tonight another 7 will compete. From every semi-final three will qualify by means of jury voting and one participant will qualify by televoting. The [...]
Ukraine – Tonight the third semi-final of the Ukrainian selection was broadcast on 1TV. The last two weeks three artists already qualified from the first and second semi-finals and tonight another 7 competed. From every semi-final three will qualify by means of jury voting and one participant will qualify by televoting. The names of the [...]
Ukraine – Tonight the third semi-final of the Ukrainian selection will be broadcast on 1TV. The last two weeks three artists already qualified from the first and second semi-finals and tonight another 7 will compete. From every semi-final three will qualify by means of jury voting and one participant will qualify by televoting. The names [...]
Ukraine: Bahroma, Eduard Romanyuta, Ivan Berezovskiy qualify
Posted: November 7, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in UkraineUkraine – Tonight NTU aired the second semi-final of their 2011 national final. The show (just like the other semi-finals) were prerecorded in October. Seven acts competed tonight. Three were chosen by means of a jury and another qualifier will be chosen by televote, which will run until next Sunday tough. That’s why we only [...]
Ukraine – Tonight the second semi-final of the Ukrainian selection will be broadcast on 1TV. Last week three artists already qualified from the first semi-final and tonight another 7 will compete. From every semi-final three will qualify by means of jury voting and one participant will qualify by televoting but the names of the latter [...]
Ukraine – Tonight the first semi-final of the Ukrainian selection was broadcast on 1TV. 7 artists performed their entries and then 3 qualifiers were chosen by the Ukrainian public. The show was dominated by women with rather common pop songs. The three (female) qualifiers are:
