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    The results of televoting during hosting of the Grand-Final of 49-th Eurovision Song Contest 2004

     Results of number of votes during the Grand-Final of 49-th Eurovision Song Contest 2004 has been published on website  esctoday.com. It has been registered 4 267 791 voices at all. There is distribution of  voices at each country:

№	Country	Number of voices
1	Germany	1 061 049
2	Switzerland	503 627
3	The United Kindom of Great Britain	415 558
4	Sweden	294 828
5	Austria	284 902
6	Greece	192 564
7	Netherlands	158 559
8	Denmark	136 769
9	Turkey	121 008
10	Cyprus	117 751
11	Russia	96 955
12	Bosnia & Herzegovina	95 062
13	Norway	81 278
14	Belgium	76 123
15	Poland	72 295
16	Slovenia	61 844
17	France	54 495
18	Macedonia	47 599
19	Iceland	46 310
20	Finland	45 952
21	Latvia	40 453
22	Croatia	40 220
23	Spain	39 005
24	Ireland	36 998
25	Estonia	34 615
26	Serbia & Montenegro	20 909
27	Lithuania	19 627
28	Belarus	16 204
29	Israel	14 297
30	Malta	12 392
31	Romania	11 698
32	Portugal	8 597
33	Ukraina	4 323
34	Andorra	3 003
35	Albania	812
36	Monaco	110

     It is good, that the Eurovision is so popular in Germany. But figures from Russia cause despondency. Especially if to take into account, that Russia considerably outstrips other countries by quantity of the population. By the way, there are 65 thousand inhabitants that lives in Andorra only, it is less than in any average small town near Moscow, and there is registered 3 thousand voices from Andorra! Or, for example, only 753 thousand inhabitants lives on Cyprus, and 117 751 persons has voted on island. At least it is silly to speak that the victory on the Eurovision is national idea for Russia after such figures (in fact 96 955 is about 0, 04 % of population of the country). And I spoke concerning that was a little voting in Belarus during elections of the participant of  Contest…

    Results of the Grand-Final of the 49-th Eurovision Song Contest 2004

Place	Country	Points
1	Ukraina	280
2	Serbia & Montenegro	263
3	Greece	252
4	Turkey	195
5-6	Sweden	170
5-6	Cyprus	170
7	Albania	106
8	Germany	92
9	Bosnia & Herzegovina	91
10	Spain	87
11	Russia	67
12-13	Malta	50
12-13	Croatia	50
14	Macedonia	46
15	France	40
16	Poland	30
17	The United Kindom of Great Britain	29
18	Romania	18
19	Iceland	16
20	Austria	9
21	Netherlands	8
22-23	Ireland	7
22-23	Belgium	7
24	Norway	3

     Well that nobody has remained in general without points. It is possible to look results of voting here.

     You may see big  Photo-gallery  of  Ruslana, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 on esctoday.com.

    Voting procedure in the Grand-Final of 49-th Eurovision Song Contest 2004

     The voting procedure of  the countries in the Grand-Final was published and persons who will declare results of voting on the air are specified on website  esctoday.com. 36 countries will take part in voting:

Code	Country	Place of broadcast	Spokesperson
AD	Andorra	Andorra la Vella	Ms. Pati Molné
AL	Albania	Tirana	Mr. Zhani Ciko
AT	Austria	Vienna	Ms. Dodo Roscic
BA	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Mija Martina
BE	Belgium	Brussels	Martine Prenen
BY	Belarus	Minsk	Mr Denis Kurian
CH	Switzerland	Zürich	Ms Emel Aykanat
CS	Serbia & Montenegro	Belgrado	Ms Natasha Miljkovic
CY	Cyprus	Nicosia	Mr Loukas Hamatsos
DE	Germany	Hamburg	Mr Thomas Anders
DK	Denmark	Copenhagen	Ms Camilla Ottesen
EE	Estonia	Tallinn	Maarja Liis Ilus
ES	Spain	Madrid	Ms Anne Igartiburu
FI	Finland	Helsinki	Ms Anna Stenlund
FR	France	Paris	Mr Alex Taylor
GB	United Kindom of Great Britain	London	Ms Lorraine Kelly
GR	Greece	Athenas	Mr Alexis Kostalas
HR	Croatia	Zagreb	Ms Barbara Kolar
IE	Ireland	Dublin	Johnny Logan
IL	Israel	Jerusalem	Ms Merav Miller
IS	Iceland	Reykjavik	Ms. Sigrun Osk Kristjansdottir
LT	Lithuania	Vilnius	Mr Rolandas Vilkoncius
LV	Latvia	Riga	Mr Lauris Reiniks
MO	Monaco	Monte Carlo	Ms Anne Allegrini
MK	Macedonia	Skopje	Karolina Petkovska
MT	Malta	Valletta	Ms Clair Agius
NL	Netherlands	Hilversum	Esther Hart
NO	Norway	Oslo	Ms Ingvild Helljesen
PO	Poland	Warschawa	Mr Maciej Orlos
PT	Portugal	Lisbon	Ms Isabel Angelino
RO	Romania	Bucharest	Ms Andreea Marin
RU	Russia	Moskow	Ms Yana Churikova
SE	Sweden	Stockholm	Mr Jovan Radomir
Sl	Slovenia	Ljubljana	Mr Peter Poles
TR	Turkey	Ankara	Ms Meltem Ersan Yazgan
UA	Ukraina	Kiev	Mr Pavlo Shylko

    Source:    esctoday.com

    The press-conference of EBU

     Yesterday, on May, 13  EBU  has held the press conference devoted to voting during the Qualifying Round of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. It was been spoken at the conference about the future voting during the Grand-Final of the Contest  and about some other problems also.

     The basic attention on conference has been given to questions of  quality of  sound during performances of  participants, to questions of system of  televoting, to problems of  voting at Monaco and Croatia due to which distribution of points has been exchanged, and also to a question of hosting of  Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004. There was supervisor Svante Stockelius among representatives of  EBU.

     Concerning bad quality of a sound during performances of  participants (it was marked by both actors and spectators), representatives of  EBU  have told, that they have already established the reason of it, have warned organizers of  the Contest, TRT, and they hope, that all problems will be eliminated till evening of Saturday.

     According to  EBU, at present time the system of  televoting is perfect enough. It provides a full transparency during voting procedure. Problems not in system and not in the company which support this system, but in the concrete countries. During voting procedure there is a period of time - 6 minutes - during which are carried out gathering, sorting and calculation of voices. After that results are deduced on scoreboard and then disclosed officially. When results of  voting from Monaco appeared, according to these results all 22 countries have received zero points as though anybody in the country has not used system of  televoting. Representatives of  EBU have demanded from Monaco to repeat check of results. Monaco has confirmed: any person did not vote. As time drew in, and also the repeated confirmation of these results has been received the  EBU accepted these results. Voting procedure has been passed normally in Croatia but it has turned out, that many croatian people have managed to vote for the own country (it is forbidden by  Rules of the Eurovision) . Usually in similar cases such voices are simply reject. For unknown reasons the system of voting in Croatia could not make it and as a result Croatia has granted 4 points to itself.

     Representatives of  EBU have declared, that during voting in the Grand-Final  they will observe more steadfastly of  these two countries. Monaco and Croatia have already found sources of problems. Besides it Monaco will promulgate the full report about this incident.

     Also during the press-conference the problem of hosting this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 has been mentioned. Problem is that British company ITV (it was responsible for hosting of  the Contest at Manchester), has refused the obligations. The new place of hosting is not named yet.

    Source:   website  eurovision.tv

    The updated results of voting on the countries which have not reached the Grand-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

     According to  EBU, results of voting at the Qualifying Round which were declared earlier, inexact. The list of the countries which will participate at the Grand-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, has remained former, but points received by other countries, have changed:

Place	Country	Points
11-12	Israel	57
11-12	Estonia	57
13	Denmark	56
14	Finland	51
15	Portugal	38
16	Lithuania	26
17	Latvia	23
18	Andorra	12
19-20	Belarus	10
19-20	Monaco	10
21	Slovenia	5
22	Switzerland	0

    Source:   website  eurovision.tv

    Results of the Qualifying Round of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

     The Qualifying Round of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was ended. The following 10 countries will participate at Grand-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004:

Country

Ukraina

Serbia & Montenegro

Cyprus

Macedonia

Malta

Albania

Greece

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Croatia

Netherlands

     The others 12 countries have not reached the Grand-Final of the Contest and have occupied places from 11 to 22 at the Qualifying Round. These countries:

Place	Country	Points
11	Estonia	65
12	Israel	57
13	Denmark	56
14	Finland	45
15	Portugal	37
16	Lithuania	26
17	Latvia	21
18	Andorra	12
19	Slovenia	11
20-21	Belarus	10
20-21	Monaco	10
22	Switzerland	0

     It is really a pity to me, that Israel, Finland, Latvia and Belarus have not reached the Grand-Final. In my opinion, these countries had very good songs. But Malta has reached the Grand-Final. Their song very much is pleasant to me also.

    Source:   website  eurovision.tv

    Order of a voting procedure at the Qualifying Round

    On May, 12  EBU  has promulgated the order of a voting procedure at the Qualifying Round.

     Inhabitants of  33 countries - participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 could vote. Inhabitants of the countries, which refused to broadcast the Qualifying Round of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 (Poland, France and Russia) were not supposed to voting. It was possible to vote no more than 20 times from one telephone number (only in those countries where was possible to take into account a maximum quantity of  bells from one phone line). It was possible to vote by SMS also.

     Names of the countries which have reached the Grand-Final of  the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 have been sealed in envelopes. The order of opening of envelopes was casual. The country, which name was in the first opened envelope, takes the first free position in the list of performances in the Grand-Final, etc. Completely results of  the Qualifying Round of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 will be declared on Sunday.

    Source:   website  eurovision.tv