Eurovision 2008

WooHoo!!!!! Russia rules!!! We won the Eurovision contest!!!! Congrats to all my fellow countrymen!!!! Bilan and his team did a good job!!!!

And as always, the United Kingdom came last.

The rest of Europe hates us, though admittedly our act was utter crap, he couldn't sing.

Are you kidding me???
Russia was between my 3 favorite countries to win the contest (besides Israel and Greece).
Congratulations!!!

Well, my point is that Europe let him win this year contest just not to see him there for the third time in a row.  All the same take my congratulations. At last you did it for the first time.

The rest of Europe hates us
No, Philosophise, this isn't the reason. The case is that your country is situated on the island and so you don't have plenty of neighbours. You may rely only on Ireland. Look at the countries of former USSR, former Yugoslavia, Scandinavia. It isn't a song contest any more. People vote for a country, not for a song.

Dissipator, absolutely!!
Nobody wants to see Bilan at the Eurovision once again, hehe
And Eurovision is not about singing at all! This year there were too many post-soviet countries voting - and here we are

No, really, I also think that this new russian president Medvedev is a wizard!!! Just look at it: 
UEFA cup, ice hockey world championship, now this! 
And he has been the president yet only for less than 1 month!
OOh, I bet Russia will win most of the golden medals at the Olympics  And what's next? Is anybody scared ?

Yeah, if to recall it, Russia almost all the times scored quite good results in Eurovision, and that's undoubtedly because we have many supporting countries. But this time we have done it at last! It's our first time. And as Pavlionka said: UEFA cup, ice hockeyworld championship, now this!! How great to see that something is improving in Russia)) P.s. But I don't think that it has anything to do with Medvedev. He didn'd do anything to Russia yet…

   more neighbor,more vote! its not fair!but ours was a good song..

Lily, it was just a naughty joke  (but you cannot deny – there's something suspicious going on, hehe… )

I'm a bit surprised that Russia won the Eurovision contest. Honestly I liked Iceland, Georgia and Albania. They've sung very well.

Philosophise, why do you think that the rest of Europe hates UK? I think UK is a great country. I admire English culture, literature(Charles Dickens, P.G. Wodehouse, Ray Cooney, etc.), movies(ecpecially comedies). Although I didn't like UK performans on Eurovision contest. But it's just my opinion. It doesn't mean the song was bad. (By the way I didn't like Russian song. Just my opinion. But I'm proud anyway, because I'm Russian)

Mostly due to the war in Iraq, it was more apparent last year.

You're right about the neighbours thing, its all too political for me. I just like watching the performances.

Oh and I agree about Turkey, I liked their act.