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It is now the turn of the host country's OGAE jury to announce their votes in the OGAE 2009 Eurovision Song Contest poll. The Russian fans awarded the United Kingdom with their maximum points, followed by Ukraine and Turkey.

Although Norway's hot fan favourite Alexander Rybak scored better with the girl fans, members of OGAE Russia, it was mostly Ukraine's anti-crisis girl, Svetlana Loboda, and United Kingdom's hope, Jade Ewen who scored maximum points with the male fans in the club's poll.

This is the verdict of the Russian OGAE jury:

  • 12 UK
  • 10 Ukraine
  • 8 Turkey
  • 7 Spain
  • 6 France
  • 5 Greece
  • 4 Iceland
  • 3 Norway
  • 2 Azerbaijan
  • 1 Lithuania

Not much changes at the top of the scoreboard after OGAE Russia has voted but the United Kingdom manages to enter the top ten tying with Greece and Turkey andpushing Estonia to 11th place.

This is the way the overall OGAE scoreboard looks like after the 26th club have cast their votes:

1Norway256
2France160
3Sweden142
4Bosnia & Herzegovina121
5Spain101
6Azerbaijan96
7Iceland76
8Greece74
-.Turkey74
-.United Kingdom74
11Estonia66
12Finland38
13Denmark30
14Lithuania27
15Switzerland25
16Portugal24
17Israel20
18Malta19
19Ukraine14
20Armenia11
21Albania10
22Romania9
23Slovenia7
-.Montenegro7
25Russia6
26Germany5
-.Moldova5
-.Croatia4
29Ireland2
-.Cyprus2
-.Bulgaria2
32Slovakia1


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