EBU has granted NTU 5 days to find a new song for Alyosha in the Ukrainian soap opera called "A song for Oslo 2010". By Friday 26 they must have a song, video and all the rest ready - and preferably one that fills the rules in its every sense. Well, it's not the first time a song has been changed but never this late I believe. This has most commonly happened in the past few years and usually in the Eastern parts of Europe. This year Belarus had a similar drama: first they had a selection already in December which was ment to give them the artists and song for Oslo 2010 but it was then changed midway. Then they chose the group 3+2 who just last week changed their already announced song to another. But back in 1983 Italy changed its song in the last minute, too. Sanremo winner Tiziana Rivale with Sará quel che sará was ment to go to Eurovision and was already shortlisted for the previews etc but then in the last minute Riccardo Fogli replaced her with Per Lucia. La Rivale was caught in some corruption accusations, later found untrue and Fogli was already in Munich recording his album and had missed ESC 1982 as RAI chose not to participate, so...
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