After San Marino had been given a deadline until this Friday to present a change of lyrics or an entirely different song, which is not breaking EBU's rules, the broadcaster has announced that they will have a new song presentation Thursday evening.
Another country, Belgium, who picked its representative name internally, will hold a mini national final on Saturday. The representative, Iris, will be performing two ballads, Would You and Safety Net to decide the participating song at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku.
Sammarinese broadcaster SMRTV continued the tradition of internal decisions this year and it has been announced that Valentina Monetta will be representing this country at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku. The song will be announced in a special programme on March 16th.
Yesterday the selection process in Moldova at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest ended with the final show of O Melodie Pentru Europa. Out of twenty-one entries participated fighting Pasha Parfeny took the ticket for the song contest with his song Lăutar.
Today, Russia selected its representative for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest which will be held in Baku in May. Authorities tipped former participants Dima Bilan & Yulia Volkova to win the national final but the group, Buranovskiye Babushki, took the ticket just over the favourites.
The Russian broadcaster RTR announced more details about the big national final on the way to Baku. 25 participants will be participating for the golden medal where previous winner Dima Bilan will make a return with former represenative, t.A.T.u's Yulia Volkova.
In the long selection process in Slovenia, we will come to the end with the final of Misja Evrovizija 2012. There are now two acts left and one of them will represent Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest this year in Baku. Let's remind ourselves of what's happened in the Misja Evrovizija 2012 and meet the finalists.
The third semifinal in Lithuanian national selection was held last night. Nine acts fought for the battle of making it to the final where only three acts qualified. The fourth and the last semifinal will be held next weekend with the Lithianian final being scheduled for the 3rd of March.
Tonight, the third show in the national selections, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, was held in Finland. The second half of the best twelve qualifiers fought the battle to be in the next round. Four acts qualified and two of them were eliminated. Spyro got the wildcard for next week’s show.
The long Azeri selection process continued with another week of semi-final shows in the host country. Eight qualifiers gave their all to win a place in the Gala Concert, to where only five of them would proceed. Winner of first heat, Orhan Kerimli was the winner of the semi-final.
