Belarus

Belarusian national broadcaster BTRC has announced that group "3+2" will represent Belarus with the song "Far Away" at the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo on May.

EBU has just announced that a total number of 39 countries will participate at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo in May. Hungary, Czech Republic and Montenegro do not wish to take part while no new countries will be joining or rejoining the Contest.

Belarusian broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest ONT, who is organising the country's entry for the first time, has announced that the Belarus national final will be held in February. The concept is also revealed.

The venue for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 has been announced by the European Broadcasting Union, even though the 2009 show hasn't been held yet. The 8th Junior Eurovision Song Contest show will be held in Minsk, the capital city of Belarus.

This year, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest which will be held in Ukraine, will host the participants from 13 countries for its 7th running of annual contest. Three countries have withdrawn who competed last year, while one country returns.

The father of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest winner has told the story about how he escaped the KGB who were chasing him, ended up in Norway and later managed to get his wife and their little son, Alexander to follow him.

The results of both semifinals have now been released by the EBU. They make interesting reading. The jury overturned the telephone vote to save countries in each of the semifinals. Quite annoying if your country finished 10th in the phone vote.

The day after the first semi-final the Eurovision Song Contest is officially hit by a couple of scandals. Head jury, Filipp Kirkorov, is seeing the Norwegian participant privately and Toppers are threatening to boycott the final should they qualify – EuroVisionary explains what is actually going on!

After months of finals, gossip and rumours, the time fans had been waiting for had finally arrived. The first semifinal was held tonight hosted by Andrey Malakhov and Natalia Vodianova. Eighteen songs were competing for ten places in the final, one of which would be decided by juries around Europe.

The Eurovision Party season continued unabated with a party hosted by the Greek and Cypriot delegations and the huge Eurodom.  More than half of this year's contestants performed on the stage to a packed house.