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Continuing the trend that has been seen in many countries already the viewing figures in Latvia for the 2008 contest took quite a tumble.  Last year nearly 40% of Latvians over the age of 4 watched the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.  This year just over 30% tuned in for the grand final.

It's well over a year now since Marija Serifovic finished her whirlwind tour of six participating Eurovision countries.  This year the tour is back and it's Dima's turn.  The tour has been slightly extended for 2008 with the total number of stops increasing to eight.

FIRST SEMI
1st GREECE 2nd ARMENIA 3rd RUSSIA

SECOND SEMI
1st UKRAINE 2nd PORTUGAL 3rd DENMARK

It has finally come to pass, 14 years after their first entry Russia has reigned victorious over the Eurovision Song Contest.  Dima tried back in 2006 and finished second to Lordi but he wasn't dissuaded and came back this year and finished second to no one.

Hello and welcome in to EuroVisionary's live coverage of what looks set to be one of the closet fought finals in may years.  We'll be covering all tonight's proceedings with a blow by blow account.  I think it's safe to say that we're in for an exciting evening.

Many were already regarding the second semi final as a far superior affair even before last night's show. The result will be seen as positive by many of Eurovision's 'Old countries' but is already being taken badly in some of the unlucky nations.

The UK media continue to cover the story even though the EBU director has realised the error he made in criticising Terry Wogan's commentary and backtracked on his original scathing review of Britain's attitude to the contest. 

In a small survey conducted among popular Azerbaijan artists the Azeri Press Agency found that most did not understand one of the main rules of the contest. 

While a graphic of the finalised stage design for the 2008 contest had been online for a few weeks now no such video was available. A short 25 second graphic clip of the stage shows how it may look come May.

RTS today announced the two hosts for this year's Eurovision Song Contest.  Zeljko Joksimovic will accompany Jovana Kankovic in the task of presenting this year's show.