The Belarusian national final has just finished, and Alyona Lanskaya was declared the winner. She won both the jury and the televotes.

She is now officially selected as the Belarusian participant for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden with her song Rhythm of love. The runner-up was the group Nuteki and third was Satsura, a solo male artist.

 

Belarus 2013 Scoreboard. Source: Viisukuppila.fi forum

Alyona Lanskaya also won the Belarusian national final for 2012, but was eventually disqualified.

National final live performance:

 

http://youtu.be/_oX92GzmxO8

 

Studio version:

 

 

 

Source: esctoday.com, Photo:  Juri Fedorenko/www.spamash.by


Juha has been following Eurovision Song Contest since the 1960s. Writing for www.esctoday.com since 2008, and other websites before that. A Finn living in London.