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   January, 2005

•   Ivan (Ivan Komarenko) &  Delfin  will represent Poland on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Duo will performe song  Czarna dziewczyna  at Kiev. Website  eurowizja.org  informs about it.

•   Romanian representative on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2005  will be selected during a final of the national selection competition, which will be held on March, 5, 2005. Songs for the Romanian national competition can be submitted until February, 20, 2005. Romanian broadcaster will judge the songs and select 12 entries for participating at final. The winner will be selected by jury and televoting.

•    Croatian broadcaster  HRT  has announced the participant list for national selection competition  Dora 2005.   See more...



•    Cypriot broadcaster  CyBC  has published list of  four songs with which  Constantinos Christoforou, the representative of  Cyprus on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2005,  will act during final of Cypriot national selection competition. These songs are  Slow,  Ela ela,  If you go and  She is no fool. The final will be held at February, 2, 2005 at Cypriot capital Limassol. The song, with which  Constantinos Christoforou  will act at Kiev will be selected by jury and televoting.

•    The list of participants of the final of  German national selection competition has been published.   See more...

•   Moldovan final of the national selection competition will be held at February, 26, 2005. It is supposed that 12 up to 15 songs will participate at final. The winner will represent Moldova on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2005  at Kiev.



•   Svante Stockselius, Executive Supervisor of  the  Eurovision Song Contest, has informed that tickets for the upcoming  50th Eurovision Song Contest 2005  (for the rehearsals as well as for the semifinal and final) will go on sale through the official website  eurovision.tv  on Monday 21st February 2005.

•   The representative of  Russia on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2005  will be selected during national selection competition. Selection competition will consist of  four parts - three semifinals and one final. Semifinals will be held on February, 4, 11, and 18, final will be held on February, 25, 2005. According to gossips, Russian singers  Anastasia Stotskaya,  Dima Bilan,  Polina Griffits,  Varvara,  Natalia Podolskaya,  Marina Sudas,  Lada Dance,  Anton Makarsky and music groups  Chai Vdvoem and  Reflex will take part at the competition.

•   Veronica Codesal,  the lead singer of  Urban Trad  band (which represented Belgium on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2003), will release her first album with the band  Camaxe. The album will be called  Imaxes  and it is a musical meeting of sounds from Gallicia, Brittany and Flanders. The album will be released at the end of  January.

•   Female singer  Helena Paparizou  will become to represent Croatia on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2005  at Kiev. Paparizou  will represent her country for the second time. At 2001 she finished third as lead singer of  the  Antique  duo.



•   Female singer  Marian van de Wal  will represent Andorra on the  Eurovision Song Contest  with the song  La mirada interior. The song may be downloaded from  rtvasa.ad  website.



•   Bulgarian broadcaster  BNT  has published the list of songs which will take part at the final of national selection competition.   See more...

•   The name of the representative of  Poland on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2005  becomes known on January, 29, 2005. Site  esctoday.com  inform about it.



•   The winner of  Croatian national selection competition  Dora 2005  will represent Croatia on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Dora 2005  will include 2 semifinals with 8 songs each, which will be held on 3rd and 4th March, 2005. 8 songs will proceed to the final to be held on Saturday 5th March. 50% televoting and 50% professional jury will decide who will represent Croatia on the Eurovision Song Contest at Kiev.

•   Site  esctoday.com  informs that Ukrainian broadcaster  NTU  has some problems with their national selections. The matter is that some of the ten semifinal winner songs has been commercially released or publicly performed before 1st October 2004, thus, according to ESC Rules, these songs can't take part at the  Eurovision Song Contest. The spokeswoman of NTU says that it's happens because Ukraine will take part in the Eurovision Song Contest for the third time and is unexperienced with national selections since  NTU  internally selected their representatives at 2003 and 2004. NTU  is currently negotiating the possibility that semifinal winners breaking the 1st October rule can already perform a new song in the Ukrainian national final.



•   PBS BiH,  the national broadcaster of  Bosnia & Herzegovina tonight announced the 15 songs that have been selected to participate at final of their national Eurovision Song Contest selection,  BH Eurosong 2005  competition.   See more...

•   The final of Turkish national selection competition will be held on February, 11, 2005.   See more...



•   87 song have been submitted to participate at Bosnian national competition  BH Eurosong 2005. Now professional jury will choose the 15 best for participation at final of the  BH Eurosong 2005. The final will be held on March, 6, 2005. Winner of  BH Eurosong 2005  will represent Bosnia & Herzegovina on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2005  at Kiev.



•   Andorran broadcaster  RTVA  has published audio files of the three songs selected for the Andorran final. A combination of a professional jury and SMS voting will decide which song will be performed by  Marian van de Wal  at Kiev. These songs may be downloaded from  rtvasa.ad  site.



•   The Bulgarian broadcaster  BNT  revealed the names and song titles of the 24 national selection participants.   See more...

•   Alf Poier  will replace parts of the controverse lyrics of this song  Good old Europe  is dying with silence as a reaction to reproaches of being anti-Islamic. “ Because of some unjustified misunderstandings I decided to replace said lyrics with Buddhistic silence ” - Alf said - “ Talking is silence, silver is gold ”.



•   The 14 competing singers and groups have been given time till the end of the month to submit the songs of their choice, which will be performed on the Kdam’s stage at Jerusalem.

•   Lise Darly  (her real name is  Elise Granier), 23 year-old female singer from Nice, will represent Monaco on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2005. The singer will act with song  Tout de moi at Kiev.

•   Francine Jordi, who represented Switzerland on the  Eurovision Song Contest 2002,  has released a Greatest Hits album named “ Einfach Francine Jordi ”.