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Believe for a second time
Russia: Dima Bilan returns to Eurovision
Dima Bilan won the Russian national final tonight having gathered maximum points from the jury and from the televoting. He performed 10th as in the final two years ago at Eurovision song contest 2006 in Athens. He sang a song produced by Timbaland titled Believe.
As the results were announced and Bilan was called on stage, the singer was crying not making it to the stage immediately. Eventually, through tears of joy, he performed once again his entry. Maria Serifovic, the last year's winner, handed the prize certificate which states the right to represent the country at the Eurovision song contest 2008 in Belgrade.
The top three results of the scoreboard looks as follows:
- Dima Bilan - Believe (54 points)
- Alexandr Panaiotov- Crescent And Cross (52 points)
- Zhenya Otradnaya - Porque Amor (50 points)
- Sergey Lazarev - Flyer (48 points)
- Alexey Vorobyov - "New Russian Kalinka" (46 points)
- Yuliya Mihalchik - "Cold Fingers" (43 points)
- Anna Mushak and project "William" - "The Needle" (41 points)
- Zhenya Rasskazova - "Otpuskayu tebya" (Setting you free) (40points)
- "Prime-Minister" band - "My parallelnie miry" (38 points)
- Tamila Bloggy (Grischenko) - "Sny" (Dreams) (38 points)
- A-Sortie band- "Colours Of My Love" (33 points)
- Olga Varvus - "King of Seduction" (31 points)
- Natalia Astafieva - "Tri luny" (Three moons) (28 points)
- Elena Gorskaya (Gorbushina) - "Always All Alone" (27 points)
- Max Lorens & Satsura - "Day nam dozhd" (Give us rain) (26 points)
- points Polina Smolova - "Na rasstoyanii dyhanya" (24 points)
- Anatoliy Alyoshin - "One More Try" (24 points)
- "Granat" band- "Another Side of Midnight" (21 points)
- Sabrina (Gadzhikaibova) - "Wreck" (19 points)
- Pier Narciss & Jam Sheriff - "Who I Am Without Your Love" (16 points)
- Asia (Aza Bataeva) - "It's No Dream" (14 points)
- Natalia Terehova - "So You Can Tell Me" (12 points)
- "BK!" band - "Don't Break My Heart" (10 points)
- band "Aero" (lead singer Andrey Makarenko) - "Siberia" (07 points)
- Roman Bezhin - "I'm Missing" (07 points)
- Nora Adam - "Gotta Let It Go" (04 points)
- Asylyar (Alsou Zainutdinova) - "Qarligaclar" (Swallows) (02 points)
Dima Bilan participates in the National Final for the third time. In 2006 in Athens he represented Russia with the ballad "Never let you go" and finished second.
Watch the Russian entry here:
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- Russia decided: do you like Believe?
- Russian selection concluded: did you like the national final?
- Which country has the best song so far?
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12 points to russia.see you next year in moskow.good luck from greece
HE is Sakis Rouvas COPY 100%...!!
beatiful!!! best of luck in Belgrade. certainly this year strongest ballad.
being russia it should be in top 5. if this song was repreenting another country, it wont even qualify. some things are so obvious in life..
Funny how many times Ive read so far that ' Never let you go ' was a ''brilliant song'' or ''so much better''...
Surely you people realise the only reason this guy got votes was because of the girl in the piano and russia's friendly neighbours?
Lordi beat him, theyd probably eat him if they got the chance... I still hope they will one day..
''Never let you go'' was predictible europop as there are dozens of songs every year, he basically has the same song now. And this guy couldnt even pronounce english, and whats infinitely worse - he still can't.
Could we maybe start an action to all vote for Portugal, Belgium or the Netherlands to get the contest back to real music and save it from this kind of drivel?
Original songs! Now!
Nice song Russia! Not better than in 2006 but not worst either, and that's the most important!
Timbalnd song is soo gorgeous.. 
I think ESC 2009 Russia
Keith - yes, many singers have submitted to the "Mariah Carey" syndrome - though she (sadly) wasn't the first.
Thing is - at least Mariah is usually in key and can hit the high notes. This guy doesn't. It's not only the style but his lack of ability and terrible pronunciation.
Good song! Well done, Russia! Dima was very good in Athens 2006 and I hope that he will be even better this year!
@Mark Wood, thank you for uploading your song. It's very nice. And I hope you don't take what I say personal; I'm not trying to suggest that your style of singing is in any way inferior to Dima Bilan's style. I'm merely pointing out that music is all about variety, and that what sounds good to some might sound terrible to others. I think you will agree there are examples of this in any genre of music. And although I agree that there certainly exists a fair number of people in the music industry who dislike this embellished singing style, I'm sure you realise that there's a lot of people out there who like it too. This vocal style has been around since Mariah Carey entered the charts in 1990, and there are no signs yet of its popularity decreasing. That may not please the learned ear - but if I'm not mistaken, not a whole lot of pop music does.
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Nice song. Too harmless I think. His song 2006 was better.
Well, it's nice that we will see him, although I hoped Sergey Lazarev would win. Perhaps some fans are not happy about Bilan's come back, but I think his song is good and that is far better than entries from Estonia, Ireland and (this one really hurts, since it's one of my fav ESC countries) Spain.
What's the problem that he represents Russia again? Many artists have represented their countries more than once, even ESC winners. I am against an ESC winner to represent his country again, but if he hasn't won, he has every right to try again!
Again him?? ?
They surely have many others who could represent Russian culture...
I just have to say a few things about Dima Bilan and his song!
I agree to a lot of people who say that his accent isn't the best, I must admit that it's quite horrible, but over all, he sings very well. The song isn't the best Russian entry ever (even if I wouldn't be surprised if Dima take the Eurovision to Moscow, Russia 2009), however, compared to a lot of the other songs this year, Russia has one of the best songs. Dima Bilan has a good voice, people will recognize him from last time, a lot of teen age girls will "fall in love" with him (again). Russia also have a lot of neighbouring countries. So as I said, I won't be surprised if he wins in Belgrade. The song is okay, he sings it well (apart from his accent), but I truly hope that he skips the "high note" in Belgrade because it might ruin his chances.
But then again, I might be wrong. After all, it's just my opinion.
it's the best the song and Dima is amazing.Good luck Russia
*do well my country;DDD
Someone said that he sounded like a goat 
I say yes it is true;D
sorry but I think he even won't qualify to final.
By the way my top:
Bulgaria
Portugal
Andorra
Lithuania (do my country)
and Albania
and i have been waiting for so long to hear that song and now i am dissapointed, i dont think russia will win this year and i wanted it so much.. dima is very good but the song is nothing special..
I dont like it. He's not singing that good this year.. His accent is extremely strong this time..
Idk.. It can be ok for singers to try again at Eurovision. But such a huge country like Russia with more than 100 million ppl there. Shouldn't allow singers to compete again in their preselections.
sorry but Never ever let you go is 100 times better, this is just boring......... no way Moscow 2009.
Annoying song, annoying singer with annoying pronounciation, i mean 2Im-pos-siiiii-ble2, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr but with all their dear neighbours probably final.... sad
The true winner!
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now we have a winner.brilliant song n voice.far better than never let you go.yep now its time for Dima Bilan.this time hes gonna make it i BELIEVE n i guess its gonna be a well deserved moscow 2009 
v n [28573] Mon 10 Mar 2008 14:41:35
"What a phony, fake guy he is. Crying like a bad actor as if he has acomplished anything by his talent. I think success has turned him to a kind of funny diva and i hope he ll deservedly flop in Belgrade.
The artist formerly known as Dima Bilan, should be renamed as Diva Bilan."
You 'r absolutly right!!!
Esctoday have wrong info.
Bilan"s Believing wasnt produced by Timbaland,
song(musi/lyrics) was wrtten by Jim Beanz.
I doubt Timbaland himself knows who Dima Bilan is.
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