Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
SARANSK, July 23 (Itar-Tass) -- First Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov will head the organising committee for the Eurovision 2009 song contest.
The All New Ewan's Musings (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Time to revisit Eurovision 2008, for no reason whatsoever, and to snipe at this “isn’t the block vote horrible, isn’t meant to be a Song Contest'” OKay then, let’s see what the better songs from this year were. And I shall use the highly scientifc method of searching for the songs on Last.FM and seeing the [...]
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday chose Moscow as the host city for next year's Eurovision Song Contest. Putin's announcement marks the end of speculation on where Europe's premi...
Queerty (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
“Next year’s Moscow Pride is set to be staged on May 16 – the same day as the Eurovision song contest finals and the day before International Day Against Homophobia.” [UK Gay News]
Another day wasted (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Morning all, I have spent the last 3 hours editing the first 17 seconds of “henry lee” my cartoon, based on a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds whilst listening to ALOT of random music. My Band of the Day have to be last years Eurovision song contest winners - Lordi due to their [...]
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Despite bans on the event every year, the organisers of Moscow Pride have announced their plans for 2009. Russia won the Eurovision Song Contest earlier this year for the first time.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday chose Moscow as the host city for next year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Moscow Times (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday chose Moscow as the host city for next year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
MOSCOW, July 21 (Itar-Tass) --The Eurovision Song Festival will be held in Moscow, taking into account the level of preparedness of the facilities in Moscow, development of the infrastructure and a po...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
MOSCOW, July 21 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow has been chosen ahead of other Russian cities bidding to host the 2009 Eurovision song context, the prime minister said on Monday. Vladimir Putin made the ann...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
The Flaming Lips closed the Lovebox Festival in London's Victoria Park last night (July 20) with a main stage performance which included dancers dressed as superheroes and frontman Wayne Coyne roaming around in a giant hamster ball.
News Mews (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Adventures of Shan Karniyarikyan Jun 25, 2008 it is not difficult to guess how. The condition attached to the offer is : if the lyrics of his song mention the Armenian Genocide and if you happen to think that it would not happen in Eurovision, I am afraid it has happened before Welcome to the new era or shall we say more agitation From: Shan Jun 25, 2008 Where do you come up with such a
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Founded in 1987 by legendary Lyonnaise toque star Paul Bocuse (pictured), the Bocuse d'Or is a unique event. A biannual culinary World Cup, it somehow combines Ready Steady Cook! with It's a Knockout-style patriotism and political cronyism à la Eurovision. Accordingly we never make it to the medals, which tend to go to the French and Scandinavians.
Blazers Edge (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Yesterday we got to sit down with Maunu Anhava, a reporter for the Finnish News Agency (officially abbreviated the STT, somewhat equivalent to our AP). Maunu is in Las Vegas covering Petteri Koponen and his Summer League progress. He has followed Petteri, and to a lesser extent Rudy Fernandez, as they played in Europe. Maunu would be the first to point out that he is a journalist, not a coach or scout....
Vox (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
Gabriel Felbermayr , Farid Toubal , 19 July 2008 This column introduces the use of Eurovision song contest scores as a measure of cultural proximity. Unlike other measures, such as common language or religion, Eurovision scores are asymmetric and time-varying, allowing estimates to distinguish between two potential channels through which cultural proximity might affect trade: trade costs and consumer...
