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The grand final
Tonight: Eurovision Song Contest 2009
The programme
The show will start at 21:00 CET and it will be hosted by Alsou and Ivan Urgant at the Olympic Indoor Arena in Moscow. The final will be opened by a performance of the Terem Quartet, the Cirque du soleil and 2008 Eurovision Song Contest winner Dima Bilan with his winning entry Believe. The interval act will be performed by Fuerza Bruta.
The voting
25 countries will present one song each. Every country will give 1-8, 10 and 12 to their ten favourite entries of the other countries. The ranking will be based on 50% televoting and 50% jury voting. In the case of a tie, the country that got points from more different countries gets the higher position. If there is still a tie, the higher position goes to the country that received the higher amount of 12 points (or 10 points, 8 points and so on). From this year onwards, it is clearly stated that this rule shall be used to dissolve any tie, not just a tie that affects the winner. Apart from the 25 finalists, the 17 countries that were eliminated in the semi finals will also have voting rights.
Internet broadcast
If you cannot follow the show on television, you can watch the show through the eurovision.tv internet live stream (without commentary) here. If you have not done so yet, don't forget that you will have to install the Octoshape plugin before the show starts.
The line-up
(Composer/lyricist in brackets)
- Lithuania - Sasha Son - Love
(Sasha Son) - Israel - Noa & Mira Awad - There must be another way
(Noa, Mira Awad, Gil Dor) - France - Patricia Kaas - Et s'il fallait le faire
(Anse Lazio/Fred Blondin) - Sweden - Malena Ernman - La voix
(Fredrik Kempe/Fredrik Kempe, Malena Ernman) - Croatia - Igor Cukrov feat. Andrea - Lijepa Tena
(Tonci Huljic/Vjekoslava Huljic) - Portugal - Flor-de-Lis - Todas as ruas do amor
(Pedro Marques/Pedro Marques, Paulo Pereira) - Iceland - Yohanna - Is it true?
(Tinatin Japaridze, Óskar Páll Sveinsson, Chris Neil) - Greece - Sakis Rouvas - This is our night
(Dimitris Kontopoulos/Craig Porteils, Cameron Giles-Webb) - Armenia - Inga & Anush - Nor par
(Mane Akopyan/Avet Barseghyan, Vardan Zadoyan) - Russia - Anastasiya Pridhodko - Mamo
(Konstantin Meladze/Konstantin Meladze, Diana Golde) - Azerbaijan - AySel & Arash - Always
(R. Uhlmann, A. Labaf, A. Papakonstantinou, M. Englöf, J. Bejerholm, A. Wrethov, E. Wrethov) - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Regina - Bistra voda
(Aleksandar Covic) - Moldova - Nelly Ciobanu - Hora din Moldova
(Veaceslav Daniliuc/Nelly Ciobanu, Andrei Hadjiu, Aristotelis Kalimeris) - Malta - Chiara - What if we?
(Marc Paelinck/Gregory Bilsen) - Estonia - Urban Symphony - Rändajad
(Sven Lõhmus) - Denmark - Brinck - Believe again
(Lars Halvor Jensen, Martin Larsson, Ronan Keating) - Germany - Alex Swings! Oscar Sings! - Miss kiss kiss bang
(Alex Christensen) - Turkey - Hadise - Düm tek tek
(Sinan Akçil/Hadise, Sinan Akçil, Stefan Fernande) - Albania - Kejsi Tola - Carry me in your dreams
(Edmond Zhulali/Agim Doçi, June Muftaraj Taylor) - Norway - Alexander Rybak - Fairytale
(Alexander Rybak) - Ukraine - Svetlana Lobody - Be my Valentine! (Anti-crisis girl)
(Svetlana Loboda/Yevgeny Matyushenko) - Romania - Elena Georghe - The Balkan girls
(Daris Mangal, Ovidiu Bistriceanu, Laurentiu Duta/Laurentiu Duta, Alexandru Pelin) - United Kingdom - Jade Ewen - It's my time
(Diane Warren, Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Finland - Waldo's People - Lose control
(Karima, Ari Erik Veikko Lehtonen/Karima, Annie Kratz-Gutå, Ari Erik Veikko Lehtonen, Waldo) - Spain - Soraya - La noche es para mí
(Irini Michas, Dimitri Stassos, Jason Gill/Felipe Pedroso)
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@ MARIA GREECE
Dear Maria,
Thank you. Like you see, it was really good contemplation and UK didn't give 12 pts to Greece, like you said, but gave it to Norway, like I'm said :-)
GO ROMANIA !!!
GO ROMANIA !!!
GO ROMANIA !!!
GO ELENA !!!!
GO ELENA !!!!
VOTE FOR NR 22 TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!! /b]
GOOD LUCK SAKISSS!! HELLAS YOU ARE THE BEST!!
Good luck ELENA! Have a great time tonight! Place as high as you can! Cuz you deserve it! You have a wonderful voice and a song that can make Europe to rise and dance!
Bafta multa!!! Romania loves you sooo much! We will be welcoming you as a queen, whatever it happens tonight!
Adu' trofeul Eleeenaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
HADİSEE AND TURKEYY GOOD LUCK
I LOVE YOU
VOTE FOR NUMBER 18 TURKEY
GOOO DÜM TEK TEK!!!!
can you feel the rhythm in my heart
the beats going Düm Tek Tek
always out it like there's no minute
feels like there’s no way back 
LOVED LITHUANIAS SONG..really deserves the TOP SPOT..GREAT LYRICS,GREAT MELODY,EMOTIONAL...GOOD LUCK LITHUANIA...a GREEK FAN..
my top 10
AZERBAIJAN
TURKEY
MALTA
UK
ICELAND
ISRAEL
LITHUANIA
MOLDOVA
ESTONIA
ALBANIA
FRANCE
Good luck Moldova
Goooood luck Nelly Ciobanu
Succese , Si mult noroc.
GOOOOOOOO HORA DIN MOLDOVA
@deep purple [57011] Sat 16 May 2009 18:35:43
I accept! Sarajevo 2010, because Bosnia and Herzegovina have the best song this year, melodic, vith the most beautiful lyrics.
Norwey vote 12 pts for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Battle for the first place between bosna and norway
Hope SARAJEVO 2010
12 ZA BOSNA OD MAKEDONIJA
Everyone seems to be predicting a good placing for the UK. I am British, but I don't think we will get a good placing. It wouldn't surprise me at all if we are in the bottom four again. Jade is a good singer. She is one of the last entries to sing, but that doesn't mean anything. Yes, she is the last of the female ballad acts. Yes Andrew Lloyd Webber is going to be on stage with her, but I still don't think we will get a high placing even though she may well deserve it. I think that Greece and Norway will be fighting it out and Azerbaijan might just nick it from them. I have a gut feeling about them tonight and I think that may well do it. Personally, I would really like someone who hasn't been mentioned amongst the favourites to win. I would like to see Portugal win as they have never won it before and whenever I hear their song it always makes me smile, but I don't think they have a chance either. I suppose we will see in a couple ofhours time.
@Faruk Ajdinović [55720] Sat 16 May 2009 18:30:04
Faruk I will! ;-) For Bosnia, Greece and UK
Good luck for all!
Johanna ESC Angel
everyone please vote for regina..the song is beautiful )I think Bosnia really deserves to win this year....but good luck to all countries though:!
VOTE FOR BOSNIA,VOTE FOR REGINA....EUSC IN SARAJEVO 2010 )))
@BalkanBoy- -Ady [56643] Sat 16 May 2009 18:15:26
MAYBEEE ON ESC 1960
People pls vote for BOsnia .... We wanna be second or fisrst cause it gonna be our best result ever...
PLS vote for BOSNIA
Johanna ESC Angel [59809]
please, there is no such thing as soviet union. all countries that WERE in this union were taken by FORCE, and non of us think of it as positive experience. we have our own identity, "post soviet" isn't the only thing about all these countries. please, respect others, yourselves. thank you. and if talking about Baltic region, I think Estonia may go high, but not winner. also maybe Ukraine might win, though i think song is quite cheap. Russia will definitely go high.
ROMANIA will be the surprise!!! Vote for ELENA!!! (nr.22) 
all soviet union haven"t song for winn. :-) I cant believe!!!
Go Bosnia
Go Greece
Go UK
The winner of the 2009 Eurovision Song contest will be....
THE UNITED KINGDOM!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D
London 2010
Lithuania go go go.
Bosnia-Herzegovina my favorite!!!!!
Dear ESC Today
May I wish all the 25 entrants all the best for tonight’s final of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Bonne Chance!
Good Luck!
Yours Truly
David James Toft
United Kingdom
sabi love I am aware of this poll (thanks to greek tv)
It is said that juries have possibly voted for the UK, but i am not at all sure that many televoters, especially in the East and the Balkans will pick up their phones and vote for the UK...
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, GREECE, UK OR MALTA
sabi . what about other countries like france ,sweden and estonia
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