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Voting formats

The new voting format allowed the non-qualified countries to vote in the final, whereas in the old format they couldn't

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Ruslana: “Starting to conquer the world”

The second press conference of Ukraines' Ruslana took place this afternoon in the press area of the Abdi Ipecki arena

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Serbia & Montenegro and Cyprus win awards

At the after show party held within the open air of the grounds of the Fortress of Seven Towers, additional

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The shock of the night: Belgium 22nd

Though she was predicted top 5 in almost every poll, Xandee returns to Belgium with only 7 points and a

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Serbia & Montenegro wins qualifier round

The results of the qualifying round have now been published online, and the most striking fact is that Serbia &

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The countries directly qualified for next year

Now the 49th Eurovision Song Contest is over, we can make up the result and check out which countries are

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Ruslana: “welcome to Ukraine!”

Ruslana welcomes the Eurovision Song Contest fans and international press to Ukraine, next year. She said that during a press

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Big Poll correctly predicts Ukraine as the winner!

The Big Poll set up by esctoday.com correctly predicted that the Ukraine would win the contest and closely predicted the

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UKRAINE WINS EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2004

With 280 points, Ukraine won the 49th Eurovision Song Contest. Thanks to Ruslana and her song Wild dances, the 50th

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PHOTOS LIVE FROM THE GREENROOM

When the artists are finished with their performance, they can sit back and relax in the greenroom, which is situated

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Anadolu Atesi: “not in competition with Riverdance”

�Anadolu Atesi� (The Fire of Anatolia) gave a press a few hours ago conference after TRT recieved many questions relating

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Televoting problems in qualifier: apology and update

While the problems with the televote Wednesday didn't change who made the final, most agree it still shouldn't have happened.

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Esctoday.com wishes you a great evening!

On behalf of all editors of esctoday.com, and especially the Istanbul team, would like to wish you a great Eurovision

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BACKSTAGE PHOTOS OF THE FINAL PREPARATIONS

Our photographer Danny Mekic' just returned from backstage, where the 24 participants of the Eurovision Song Contest final are working