After three hectic months of working with her Eurovision Song Contest entry, doing promotional tours in 14 European countries, and giving dozens of interviews to the mass media agencies all around Europe, Ruslana is finally heading to Istanbul. Vasyl Yablonski of Ruslana's promotion team told that to esctoday.com.

The Ukrainian delegation, consisting of Ruslana, her co-producer Alexandr Ksenofontov, staging director, dancers, representatives of broadcaster NTU, PR specialists and other important members of the overall team are coming to Turkey on Tuesday, 4th of May, to continue the preparations for Ukraine's participation in Eurovision Song Contest 2004 on the spot.

“I have been so actively touring Europe with promotional concerts that I do not feel nervous at all about my performance on the stage of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 12”, Ruslana says. “At the same time, I am very excited about the fact that I will soon be involved in the official Eurovision rehearsals and will have a chance to meet many new people and make many new friends”.

While in Istanbul, Ruslana plans to attend as many Eurovision Song Contest related events as possible. Ukrainian participant also plans to throw a party at EuroClub but no specific date has been set for this yet.

Today at 16:00 CET we had a chat, live with Ruslana at esctoday.com, in cooperation with the Dutch broadcaster TROS. Soon we will report about it!