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"Eurovision is not about winning"
Ukraine: International team
Ani Lorak, the singer, is of course herself Ukrainian, but working with her is half-Russian half-Bulgarian Filipp Kirkorov, who wrote the music for Shady Lady, Karen Kavaleryan, an Armenian who wrote the lyrics, and Greek choreographer Foks Evangelinos, who designed the stage show for the entry and also arranged the stage shows of Greece 2005 and Russia 2006.
Also involved are Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, who designed Ani's dress, the 4 dancers - 2 of whom are Russian, one Ukrainian and one Swedish, an Armenian back vocalist called Mariam Merabova, who lives in Russia these days, and a Georgian head of event coordination, Gela Todua, who organised Ani's promo tour.
And of course we can't forget that Ani herself is married to a Turkish man, who is also present in Belgrade to support her!
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Good luck Ukraine. We will win!!!!!
UKRAINE is the winner!!!...
Sweden will be in top 5 but not the winner
Russia second
other two in top 5 will be some of the other slavic countries due to support each other. In top 10 will include at least 6 Slavics.
I wish Turkey won but they may not qualify because there are more slavics in their group and their stage performans is not good. 
Rock lovers may support them but also Finland has a good one, as well as Turkey...
Sorry Turkey it is not this year
Congratulations U K R A I N E ..... 
I LOVE SHADY LADY
Wellcome to )))))) SLAVISION (((((( (not worldvision)
Top 5 will be>
>Greece
>Russia
>Ukraine
>Armenia
>Slovenia... in no order...
wow is her husband turkish??? where does she live today....in turkey or in ukraine?? i think i like this song much more now than i did for a few weeks ago...cna definitly beat Charlotte...im afraid....
The reports from the 2nd rehearsals says that Sweden and Iceland were the best(among Iceland, Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine)
Ukraine´s rehearsal seems to have been a lot weaker than the first one.
Think about that Sweden bashers and Ukraine lovers!
MOR VE ÖTESÄ°-(CRAZY) TURKEY
Sounght, the owner of my soul
Did I fall fight into the spot?
Resisting the subject of my passion
Angered and shrunken
Sounght, the owner of my soul
Did I fall right into the spot?
Resisting, resisting, resisting...
Raise me
Don’t make me cry
Where is the love
You’re so proud of
Raise me
Don’t make me cry
Don’t waste my time
With fake dreams
Sougt, theowner of my soul
Did I fall right into the spot?
Resisting, the subject of my passion
Angered and shrunken
Soungt, the owner of my soul
Did I fall right into the spot?
Resisting, resisting, resisting...
Raise me
Don’t make me cry
Where is the love
You’re so proud of
Raise me
Don’t deceive me
With fak dereams Half sane, half crazy I am
Sane all around me, crazy, one side of me
Everbady else sane, crazy, only me
Crazy, only me...
Raise me
Don’t make me cry
Where is the love
You’re so proud of
Raise me
Don’t make me cry
Don’t waste my time
With fake dreams
video super....
woooooowww!! success grows proportionally to the amount of HATERS!!! ehehehhe
I agree!!!! 
'0 points' 
this girl dying to win
I bet that if she doesnt achieve it she will spend her whole summer in a pchychiatric clinic
Simply Awful !!!! (Again).
You're welcome Kohanna T
ON KIRKOROV: Yes, he's a diva, but that's not why people don't like him. Actually they don't hate him - he's just tabloid fodder, so the yellow press prints a lot of scandalous articles about him (he enjoys the publicity and cooperates with scandal - trust me, it's his bread)
If people seriously don't like him it's because he plagiarizes songs and ideas from other people in the showbiz industry. And i'm NOT talking about his covers, cause covers are normal. For example: he plagiarized Koldun's vid from Aerosmith, etc...
OMG!!! Murat and Harun are high school mates???? WHAT A SMALL WORLD!!! Thanks for the info, Mer Maid )))))))
Extra info
Ani's boyfriend Murat and Turkish singer Harun are high school mates
Ani will get lots of points from Turks that's for sure!
Common stop talking noncence ... a lot of people of different nationalities work in the Ukrainan national team, end of story! ... stop with the comments, should she sing in turkish, ukrainan or whatever ...
well she hasnt got the Best pop song this year(3-4 are better...) BUT she has a good package which i hope wont work and a new country wins again this year.......!!
@alex
never said i don't like her...the performance so far is the best
though i believe the interview is quite poor...for istance if you compare with the one of charlotte perrelli.
anyway i'll see next week once in belgrade...and hopefully meet her dancers lool
CFC, the team behind Ani Lorak is the one that propelled Ruslana to the victory in Istanbul...she's got a massive chance of winning...
- Alex Amos
hehe, he sounds like quite a character, much like our other diva, miss diva bilan!!!
- Alex and Claudio
I listened to her UK radio interview and whilst her english wasn't word perfect, she managed the interview very well and there were no real problems, her english was fine for the interview And I think she will probably pick up high points from the UK, its a good modern song that the British people will like . . . . . it could even get our 12!!
Jonny, YES he's the biggest diva. LOL. ehhh, but he's 2-sided. He doesn't like journalists (except those who are his friends), he's scandalous but in the real life at home he's kinda quiet and unhappy. He pays for his behaviour. But this is who he is.
- serkan _Turkey
Cool!
- Alex Amos
Aaaah, I see!!! He sounds like a bit of a diva!!!
AND OF COURSE HER UNDERPANTS ARE FROM TZIPOUKISTAN!!
GREAT ARTICLE, IT WAS NICE TO KNOW!!!
Claudio, you haven't heard embarrassing English in your life then.
+ hr song was added by a lot of English radios and Capital Radio chose HER.
Probably UK knows better whose English is bad, don't you think
alex for sure they don't speak english...since her english is as embarassing as the one of Dima and Paolo...gosh
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