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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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Natalia Podolskaya wins Eurodance

Natalia Podolksaya, who represented Russia at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, has won the Eurodance Song Festival with

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Romanian line-up changes

TVR has republished its list of semifinalists for the Romanian selection process, after four of the songs were withdrawn by

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Anzej sings 'Mr Nobody'

The writers of EMA winner Plan B have been hard at work producing a new mix of the song, it

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Javine arrested for no-show

Javine Hylton, who represented the UK at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, was arrested last week for failing

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Two more leave Ukrainian selection

Anna Kohanchik and Taras Dobrovolskiy have become the next two contestants to be voted off the Ukrainian casting show Ti-zirka,

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Tina Karol leads in Ukraine

The live voting tally for Ti-zirka, the casting-style selection round of the Ukrainian Eurovision preparations for 2006, is available online,

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Dora date change

HRT have moved the dates for the Dora national selection back one day, with the semifinals now broadcast on 2nd

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Vicky Leandros : Don't break my heart

Vicky Leandros has been working hard in the studio during the past few weeks, fine-tuning the arrangement of her song

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Sidsel wins Danish ticket to Athens

Sidsel Ben Semmane has been unanimously selected to represent Denmark in Athens with the song Twist of love. Wearing cowboy

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Fabrizio prepares for Europe

The Malta Song board met earlier this week to reflect on the outcome of the Maltese final, and lay down

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UK firm to style Athens stage

ERT today announced that the British company Stage One has been appointed to build the set for the 2006 Eurovision

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Sneak peek at Danish preparations

Danish broadcaster DR has allowed fans a sneak peek at the set for Saturday's national selection by adding a live

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SR launch Melodifestivalen site

Swedish Radio broadcaster SR have launched their Melodifestival 2006 site, offering visitors to listen to P4 Melodifest, playing round-the-clock non-stop

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Romanian song deadline passes

The deadline for submission of songs to TVR for the national selection has passed, leaving the station with 148 entries