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  • May 14, 2025

Richard West-Soley

Richard’s ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it’s been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.

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Dima and Tina rock Kyiv

Dima Bilan, runner-up for Russia at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, starred alongside Ukrainian representative Tina Karol in a concert

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Shiri wows theatre critics

Israeli rising star Shiri Maimon, who brought a highly celebrated fourth place to Israel at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest,

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Belgian fans vote: Anita Lixel!

Visitors to belgovision.com have voted Anita Lixel as their favourite candidate to fly the flag for Belgium at the Eurovision

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EBU: A Quiz for Europe!

Eurovision fans all over Europe will be able to pit their wits and song contest knowledge against the skills of

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Surprise success for Belle

A surprise international success for third-placed Belgian finalist Belle Perez, proves that it is not just winning national finals songs

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Tinka aims for the top

Tinka Milinovic, one of the six international performers who made up the group Six4One for Switzerland at the Eurovision Song

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Kate Ryan tackles the UK – again!

British fans of Kate Ryan's Eurovision Song Contest 2006 entry Je t'adore will be able to buy the single in

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Lordi's stamp of honour

Finnish Rockers Lordi are set to receive a very official stamp of approval, as the Post Office plans to issue

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Finland plans first home entry

Finnish broadcaster YLE will make no major changes to its selection process for 2007, following the winning formula of the

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Ruslana rallies footie team

Ukrainian football fans, still jubilant in the success of reaching the final sixteen of the World Cup in Germany, are

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Lordi's label faces trouble

Sanctuary, the music company whose artists include Eurovision Song Contest winners Lordi, has admitted that troubles times lie ahead as

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Hell in London for Lordi

The costumes that Lordi's members wear may make them look like creatures from hell, but they recently faced infernal temperatures

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Lordi charts in UK top 40

Finnish Eurovision Song Contest winners have placed at spot 25 in the official UK singles chart this week, as British

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Kate Ryan at jESC selection

Kate Ryan, who narrowly missed out on a Eurovision Song Contest final place this year, will be the guest star