Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Belarus has received 84 songs for their national final, quite a drop from last year's 110. Tomorrow November 26 and December 1 these 84 songs will be performed live for a jury (you can follow it live on tvr.by it seems) that will select the finalists (15) for the national final to be held on January 15, 2016 in Minsk. The names should be out on December 2. In the final there will be televote only and let's see how that will end like. Belarus is famous for scandals and changes and all sort of things before and especially after their national final..... Can they make it right the first time? What will Lukashenko say? Quite many previous wannabes are at it again from Alexey Gross to Janet , Chistyi Golos  and Napoli. And Aura , Sweet Brains ..,  Alexey Gross (pictured) has a long history in the contest, he has taken part most every year lately.... will he finally win? Here are some of his entries: One way love (2013), If I could do it all again (2014), Stand as one (2...

Yesterday also Belarus revealed its 15 artists for the selection in early January 2014. It's good to bear in mind that the artist who wins maybe eventually won't go  to Eurovision after all, and if he/she/them do not certainly with the song they won the selection with! Unless Lukashenko likes it. Anyways, among these I recognize at least Alexei Gross , Max Lorens and Nuteki . Also Switter Boys has left its mark on world wide web....Oh, and Artem is one of the 3+2! Matvej Bondarenko Juri Vashchuk Alexey Gross Dariia Zhanet Max Lorens & DiDyuLya Anastasia Malashkevich Artem Mihalenko Alina Moshchenko Napoli Nuteki Nataliya Odintsova Elena Sinyavskaya Switter Boys

Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko hopes his country will win the next Eurovision song contest to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan in May 2012. He believes the Azerbaijan's success and next year's hosting will open the way to the first and long awaited win for Belarus. So he states in the congratulation message to the Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev.  Lukashenko has been in the lead of Belarus since 1994. Under Lukashenko's rule, Belarus has emerged to be viewed as a state whose conduct is out of line with international laws and whose regime is considered to grossly violate human rights.Condoleezza Rice described Belarus as “the last true remaining dictatorship in the heart of Europe”. Belarus has been participating in Eurovision since 2004 with rather variable results. They have made the final only twice, in Helsinki 2007 with Dmitry Koldun's Work your magic and last year with 3-2's Butterflies . The national selection has been often questionable with changes of ...