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Post by vinjak on May 23, 2008 18:09:54 GMT -5
Foreign reporters in the Eurovision: Serbia is great host
23 May 2008. 14:15
Serbia has shown to be a great host of this year’s Eurovision, and this event will help the country to be promoted in the tourist map of Europe and the world, it has been a joint assessment of foreign reporters at this music spectacle. The reporter of Cyprian Radio 1, Stefanos Oden has stated that Serbia is a great host and that the reporters are especially satisfied with the Press Center, which is the biggest one in the history of that contest. The reporter of Israeli Channel 9, Eran Farbstein believes that Belgrade is a modern city, which will be promoted with the rest of the country as a tourist destination.
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Post by zgembo on May 24, 2008 12:03:40 GMT -5
Serbia sings Eurovision song aimed at Kosovo By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin Last Updated: 10:42AM BST 24/05/2008 Serbia is due to host the Eurovision song contest with a tune hailed as a gesture of nationalist defiance over the secession of Kosovo.
The camp songfest has long dripped with barely-concealed political intrigue as countries vote for friends and neighbours no matter how awful their efforts.
Belgrade's moment in the spotlight comes just three months after Serbia's former province of Kosovo declared independence backed by most of the European Union.
Serbia has withdrawn its ambassadors from those countries which recognise Kosovo, and now Jelena Tomasevic, its Eurovision entrant, is to ram home the country's disgust with her song 'Oro'.
The lyrics of the song, one the favourites, apparently tell the tale of a pair of lovers, and end cryptically: "Wake me up on St Vitus's Day, so that I can look at him again. Wake me up on St Vitus's Day, so that I can see him one more time."
The reference is unlikely to mean much to Eurovision's huge international audience. But in Serbia, and throughout the Balkans, St Vitus's Day, on June 28th, has a powerful resonance. It was on this day in 1389 that Serbs fought the Ottomans at the Field of the Blackbirds in Kosovo, a fight they cherish as a touchstone of Serb religion and nationhood.
Six centuries later, in 1989, Serb autocrat Slobodan Milosevic visited the site of the battle on St Vitus's Day and, before an million-strong crowd, talked of Serbia regaining "its state, national, and spiritual integrity".
"Six centuries later, now, we are being again engaged in battles and are facing battles. They are not armed battles, although such things cannot be excluded yet," he said ominously, with the conflicts that tore across the Balkans in the 1990s just two years away.
An alternative suggestion is that the St Vitus's Day lyric is a reference to a legend that girls who dream of their beloved on that day go on to marry them.
But this is not the first time Serbia has used its Eurovision entry to make a political statement. Last year, Serb winning entrant Marija Serifovic greeted the news that Bosnia had awarded her song a maximum 12 points with a three-fingered salute a notorious nationalist gesture from Serb campaigns in the Balkan wars.
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Post by zgembo on May 24, 2008 15:03:44 GMT -5
Albania's performance was cheered by everyone in the finals.
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Post by Toskaliku on May 24, 2008 15:42:14 GMT -5
Queer show for queer Europeans.... this is such a horrible event.... And im ashamed my country sent a contestant to Belgrade...
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Post by zgembo on May 24, 2008 16:08:49 GMT -5
America did not send a contestant Love it or hate it, Eurovision attracts over 300 million viewers... hosting it is a big honour for any European country ;D
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Post by Ja Ona i Pivo on May 24, 2008 16:54:48 GMT -5
Hehhe great comment from the Slovenian TV profile!! "Za bracu srbe 12 poena"
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Post by zgembo on May 24, 2008 17:16:55 GMT -5
^ Najbolji komentar ;D
Serbia finishes 6th, very respectable result. Hvala Hrvatskoj, Bosni i Hercegovini, Crnoj Gori, Sloveniji i Svajcarskoj za poene!
Congratulations to Russia for winning! Cestitke braci Rusima! ;D
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Post by Ja Ona i Pivo on May 24, 2008 17:24:02 GMT -5
Bice dernek u Moskvi to je garant, ali Srbija je po meni imala NAJ NAJ NAJ bolji show ikada u Euroviziji, to i svedjani govore
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Post by CiKoLa on May 25, 2008 1:28:30 GMT -5
the funniest thing was when the mother of eurovision called Belgrade ... Bulgaria.
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Post by SKORIC on May 25, 2008 7:58:46 GMT -5
^ lol yeh
and lol at the bosnian singers
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Post by bob1389 on May 25, 2008 9:21:10 GMT -5
I love it how Serbia and Bosnia exchange top points
nece biti granica na drini!!! ;D
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Post by radovic on May 26, 2008 10:59:17 GMT -5
SKANDAL! Grupi mladih Rusa koji su preksinoæ u centru grada nosili majice na kojima je pisalo “Kosovo je Srbija” organizatori naredili da preko njih obuku druge sa natpisom “Beograd”
BEOGRAD - Organizatori Evrosonga preksinoæ su ispred Skupštine Beograda zabranili nošenje majica sa natpisom “Kosovo je Srbija” i pretili policijom omladini koja je došla da na video-bimu odgleda finale. Skandal je dobio i meðunarodnu dimenziju jer je majice sa tim natpisom, pored nekolicine domaæih, nosilo i 20 mladih Rusa iz organizacije “Naši”, koji su došli u trodnevnu posetu Srbiji.
- Bili smo smešteni desno, ispred samog video-bima pred gradskom skupštinom. Prišlo nam je obezbeðenje, koje je reklo da ne možemo da nosimo majice sa natpisima “Kosovo je Srbija”. Bilo je dvadesetak Rusa i nekoliko naših koji su nosili iste majice. Doneli su nam majice sa nekim šarenim natpisima “Beograd” i naredili mladiæima i devojkama sa spornim majicama da ih obuku preko, inaèe æe ih izbaciti - prièa za Kurir Miša Vaciæ, portparol Pokreta “1389”, koji je bio domaæin ruskoj organizaciji.
On je kazao da je otišao da se žali organizatorima sveèanosti, ali je dobio odgovor da nikakve majice sa takvim natpisima nisu dozvoljene.
- Rekao sam da æemo se obratiti medijima, a žena koja je organizator je pitala: “Da neæete Kuriru?” Odgovorio sam da hoæemo, a ona je zapretila da æe nas izbaciti i pozvati policiju - prièa Vaciæ.
Reporter Kurira koji je bio na licu mesta uverio se da su mladi Rusi, kao i pripadnici Pokreta “1389”, zaista nosili majice sa šarenim natpisima “Beograd”, a ispod njih su imali i one na kojima je pisalo “Kosovo je Srbija”. Zatražio je objašnjenje od organizatora. Žena srednjih godina, koja se predstavila kao Mila, nije bila raspoložena za razgovor.
- A kome da kažem? - upitala nas je dok je zapanjeno gledala u diktafon, na šta smo ponovili da smo iz Kurira i da želimo da znamo da li je ona zabranila majice s natpisom “Kosovo je Srbija”. - Ne mogu da vam odgovorim i ne želim da vam odgovorim. Kuriru ne želim da odgovorim. Imam pravo da ne odgovorim - rekla nam je ona, a potom se udaljila uz konstataciju da mora da radi.
DINKIÆ I TIJANIÆ ORGANIZATORI
Na èelu odbora za organizaciju ovogodišnjeg Evrosonga bio je Mlaðan Dinkiæ. Pored njega èlanovi odbora su i v.d. gradonaèelnika Beograda Zoran Alimpiæ, èlan Gradskog veæa Skupštine Beograda Andreja Mladenoviæ, generalni direktor RTS Aleksandar Tijaniæ i urednica Zabavnog programa te televizije i izvršni producent takmièenja za Pesmu Evrovizije 2008. godine Sandra Suša. Supervizor Evrosonga bio je Svante Stokselijus, a ceo spektakl održan je pod budnim okom ljudi iz Evropske radiodifuzne unije.
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