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Everyone's number one

Helena Paparizou once again dazzled onlookers at her second rehearsal today. The performance has many people here in Kyiv that

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Esctoday.com covers tonight's parties!

Esctoday.com editors are going different directions tonight to cover all parties taking place, organised by several delegations. Angelica Agurbash (Belarus)

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Cyprus ready to win

Constantinos Christoforou returned to the stage for Cyprus� second rehearsal today. After yesterday�s delay to allow time for their stage

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Katrina Leskanich: 'Never again!'

Katrina Leskanich, winner of the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest and participant in this year's Swedish Melodifestivalen, opened the live show

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'Grandpa' joins the Ukrainian press conference

Apart from Stepan (photo) playing on the Kobza and the promogirls serving vareniki (a tradition Ukrainian bakery), the second Ukrainian

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GreenJolly: 'Our heart is in Europe, our soul in Ukraine!'

Standing in front of Hotel Ukraine at Independence Square, Kyiv, it looks like a square like any other square in

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Gracia praises Ruslana and has learned some Ukrainian

Gracia Baur, representative of Germany, had a camera rehearsal today and is getting more confident with her performance. The press

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Eurocamp: waiting for guests

Although the camping life hasn't got into full swing, everything seems to be ready for thousands of pack packers from

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Interview with BBC commentator Paddy O'Connell

The BBC3 commentator for the semifinal, Paddy O'Connell, had an exclusive chat to esctoday.com following the first rehearsal of the

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Cool Javine looks comfortable

Javine came back to the stage today for the United Kingdom�s final rehearsal of Touch my fire before the full

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Angelica and Shiri celebrate their birthdays!

Angelica Agurbash, who represents Belarus at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, and Shiri Maymon, representing Israel, are celebrating their birthdays

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The 39 spokespersons!

Every year it's looking forward to the spokespersons who will be announcing the votes from their country. Several countries are

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Chiara doesn't feel alone on stage

The Maltese singer, Chiara, just had her second and last technical rehearsal before she moves on to the dress rehearsals

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Eurovision is officially open

The official �Awakening� welcome cocktail party for the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest was held last night at the Mariinskiy Palace