Little news keep coming on daily basis as we are getting closer to the end of the year. First of all Azerbaijan and Spain have finally got their punishment: astonishing 2.700 euros fine for irregulations with the last edition in Moscow (Spain failing to broadcast live the second semifinal and using the jury instead, and Azerbaijan making trouble to Armenian entry and afterwords questioning people who dared to vote for it). 2.700 euros??!! Is that a joke? Meanwhile Armenia has put its participation in doubt.
Trouble also in Belarus where ONT is running the similselection for Eurovision - even if they have later added that the selection is not necessarily for Eurovision but for any worthcoming international festival, whatever that means - but BTRC is the only Belarussian EBU member broadcaster... Let's see what comes out of this mess!
Romania is changing its selection a bit and will have only one off final on March 6. No semifinals and such. The good old fashioned way!
Slovakia will announce its participants in the national selection on December 15, a day after Cyprus who will do the same on December 14. Cyprus will have its final on February 7 with 10 songs again.
Turkey has surprisingly taken the most democratic way there is, it seems: anyone can send an email until this Friday with the name of an artist he/she would like to represant Turkey in Oslo 2010. TRT will then ask the one with most nominations to do the honors! If the one in question doesn't want to go, they will ask the second on the list and so on.... Sounds pretty good to me! It would be interesting to see who would top such a list in Finland (ad eventually who would agree to do it from that list!)...
Alexander Rybak's saga goes on strong. The DVD of his adventures after winning in Norway is out, so is the movie he starts in and on top of that he will be performing in Nobel Prize gala this Friday.
Last but not least, UK has won the OGAE Song Contest with Coldplay's Viva la vida.
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