BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

31/01/2007

Belarus: hilarious intervention of Russia in the Belarusian entry

An unprecedent event takes place as we speak. Since yesterday the record label of Dima Koldun has created a crisis in the Belarusian entry. Koldun's record label is the one owned by Channel One. Dima Koldun as the winner of their reality show signed a contract with the label. The label doesn't believe Koldun is ready for such a big show such as Eurovision and therefore they have forbidden him to participate in the contest.

The Belarusian national broadcaster is outraged with the Russia intervention which is ultimately an extention of the Belarus - Russia political relations which are in the worst level the past two years. So far Dima Koldun will keep performing his song as it is. It is still unknown whether he will ultimately compete in Eurovision as a court decision is expected on Monday.

Russian broadcaster provokes

Russian broadcaster seems to be in a dead end with the 2007 participation. Because it's hilarious to support that a new comer is not capable to represent in such a big event. In 2004 it was Channel One who send Julia Savicheva and Natalia Podolskaya in 2004 and 2005 Eurovision.

Another question is why Channel One reacted now. It was in mid September that everyone knew that Dima Koldun submitted song to Belarusian broadcaster. Why the broadcaster didn't react back then?

Why Channel One undermines the voting of the Belarusian public who gave the maximum of televotes to Dima Koldun on the semifinal of December 15? Russian broadcaster might be aware that the song is already popular among the fans and maybe they are affraid that their political adversary is close to go high in the contest this time, for the first time.

But ultimately the case is whether Dima Koldun will participate in the national selection. It is sad to see a country like Russia using this kind of methods in the Eurovision Song Contest especially when its participating national broadcaster is also entering the contest. Shall we wonder why?

Source:

http://www.oikotimes.com/site/index.php?id=8000

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