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About Ukraine...
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2005 Result
Points in Semi Final: N/A
Position in Semi Final: N/A
Points in Final: 30
Position in Final: 20th
2006 Contest: Must compete in Semi Final
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History (1956 to 2004)
Ukraine's previous appearances: 2 year(s) out of 49
Years participated: 2003-
Best result: 1st (2004)
Ukraine has a short but eventful history at Eurovision, only entering for the first time in 2003 but winning the Contest on its second attempt in 2004. In 2003, Despite having a song written by Tzvika Pick (the man behind Dana International's 'Diva'), performed by the established Ukrainian artist, Olexandr Ponomaryov, and accompanied by dancing acrobats, 'Hasta la vista' managed a slightly disappointing 14th place. Perhaps Olexandr should have taken a leaf out of Dana's book, and worn a Jean Paul Gaultier dress instead of his luminous (and quite tight) white suit? As a result, Ukraine narrowly missed out on an automatic place in the 2004 Final, and had to participate in the Semi Final first. It hardly mattered, however... Ruslana's 'Wild Dances' breezed through the Semi Final before stomping to victory - with points from 34 of the 35 other countries - in the Final. In doing so, leather-clad Ruslana seemed to reinforce the experience of Sertab from the year before - that combining a great song with impressive choreography is the way to win Eurovision in this age of televoting.
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This year's entry
Position in Semi Final draw: N/A
Position in Final draw: 16
What I said prior to the Semi Final:
"After an interminable selection process stretching back to October, the Ukrainian national final became something of a farce when one of the wild cards - only given a place at the last minute - swept to victory ahead of artists who had spent the best part of six months competing. Of course, Greenjolly is no ordinary act, with their anthemic chant 'Razom nas bahato, nas nye podolaty' providing the soundtrack to December's Orange Revolution in Ukraine. With its blatantly political message and repeated references to Victor Yushchenko (the man later confirmed as the country's President in the Boxing Day rerun poll), drastic rewriting was required at the behest of the European Broadcasting Union. Nevertheless, the end result retains much of the impact of the original, with its universal message about "winning battles" and "staying undefeated". In its political resonance, 'Razom nas bahato' perhaps commands more popular support in its own country than any previous Eurovision entry. The danger, of course, is that its message might be lost on the rest of Europe."
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What I predicted...
My prediction for Semi Final: N/A
My prediction for Final: 19th to 21st
What I predicted prior to the Semi Final:
"With odds of 50-1 and 33rd place out of 39 in the Soult.com Eurovision Poll 2005, the chances of Ukraine securing back-to-back victories appears slim indeed. Neighbouring Poland, where the song has already been a success, may well send some points Ukraine's way, but the rest of Europe is likely to be underwhelmed. Greenjolly won't finish bottom, but nor do I expect them to secure Ukraine's direct qualification to the 2006 Final - a placing in the mid to low teens would be my guess."
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What you thought...
Final Poll Ranking: out of 39 ()
(Updated 22 May 2005; change refers to movement over final week)
In the run up to the Contest, 27,998 visitors to this site voted for their favourite song in the Soult.com Eurovision Poll (up from 5,000 in 2004!)
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What actually happened...
Despite Greenjolly getting the biggest cheer of the night in the hall, Ukraine was never really likely to perform well with this song at Eurovision. Indeed, picking up just 30 points to finish in 20th place, most countries gave it a wide berth, with only five giving it any points at all. Those points from Poland, Moldova and Russia might have been predicted, though quite what Spain and Portugal found appealing about the song is less clear.
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What the bookies thought...
 | Ukraine to win: | 21/05/05 (prior to Final) | 66-1 |
| | 19/05/05 (after Semi Final) | 50-1 |
| | 19/05/05 (prior to Semi Final) | 50-1 |
| | 16/05/05 | 50-1 |
| | 15/05/05 | 50-1 |
| | 08/05/05 | 50-1 |
| | 02/05/05 | 50-1 |
| | 24/04/05 | 50-1 |
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With odds of 66-1, little was expected of the Ukrainian entry, and so it proved.
(Odds quoted here were those offered by Coral.co.uk. 'F' indicates favourite, 'JF' joint favourite.)
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Links
 http://www.1tv.com.ua/
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Notes (see 'History' above)
- The 1956 Contest (where each country had two songs) is counted as a single appearance;
- Countries eliminated in the 1993 preliminary heat (EE, HU, RO, SK) ARE NOT counted as making an appearance in that year's Contest;
- Countries eliminated in the 1996 preliminary heat (DE, DK, HU, IL, MK, RO, RU) ARE NOT counted as making an appearance in that year's Contest;
- Countries eliminated in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 Semi Finals ARE counted as making an appearance in that year's Contest.
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Your comments (41)
From Alexandru Busa, ROMANIA
Added 16:16:9 2005-9-12
From the Eurovision 2005 I like very much Ruslana performing "Heart on fire" and "The same star"
I dislike Elena Paparizou
From Lala, GERMANY
Added 13:37:24 2005-8-28
what a terrible "song" (i don't want to call this a song) but its not so bad like switzerland^^
From Kotryna, LITHUANIA
Added 10:1:20 2005-6-13
well done, guys!i like your song very much:)!...razom nas bahato, nas nye podolaty...
best wishes from me!
From Erle, ESTONIA
Added 19:13:40 2005-5-28
I loved it. You know, keeping people in the spirit of the recent revolution there should be supported. And I voted for them. And it's a good song.
Singing is an important part of revolution for me (yes, you guessed right: I'm an Estonian).
From european_serb, --
Added 22:20:23 2005-5-27
Ukraine, u organised it well, im sure the best u could and im sure everyone was welcome to ur lovely state! Ur song was much better then many others...u sang in ur native language! Was great! Hope to hear u sing in ur native language next year too! Volimo vas! :-)
To Ksenija from serbia & Montenegro, dont say u liked FYROM's 'make my day' or whatever it was...
From Charlotte, UNITED KINGDOM
Added 18:40:40 2005-5-27
Oh Amy .. it really was awful! It is not what eurovision is all about! I should know! =p apparantly i'm the biggest and youngest eurovision fan in the country (H) lmao .. see you saturday babe love ya x
From amy, --
Added 17:6:11 2005-5-26
Spain entry was just a bit of fun-lighten up, charlotte!
'Razom nas bahato' is a chant. it wasnt ment to be a 'song' song. It was used in a protest in the ukraine for some political reason.
From Charlotte, UNITED KINGDOM
Added 22:20:24 2005-5-25
PURE PANTS. What was it?? I wouldn't even call it a song, the WORST entry this contest, definitely (or Spain maybe!)
From amy, UNITED KINGDOM
Added 11:46:30 2005-5-25
you couldnt exactly call it a song- more of a chant...but i loved it. now i keep going 'razom nas bahato' around college and everyones like "WHAT?!" hehehehe.
i voted for it.
From Christina, LITHUANIA
Added 13:32:21 2005-5-22
I Loved the song...(: and, btw, thanks for those words, you said to Laura & the Lovers...:}
From Vilma, LITHUANIA
Added 12:52:21 2005-5-21
your song is so original :) good luck for the final! lithuania will vote for greenjolly :)
From Ronen, ISRAEL
Added 5:20:34 2005-5-21
Great song. May be in the top 5.
From Yurko, UKRAINE
Added 23:12:16 2005-5-19
Hey for shure nobody knew this group before revolution and nobody will know it after. They did great motivation song...and it really helped me and milion of others when i was staing on thise cold days in kyiv... people liked it at this time so they woted. And it's not the reason to say that my country is awful. Ok? have you been here? You should. And these words are just saing about YOUR culture. We will win eurovision 2006.. now we give chance to others! Wisit Ukraine! You will like it! Good luck
From Gilmor, LITHUANIA
Added 13:40:44 2005-5-19
rehearse! you can do it!
From Juan, UNITED STATES
Added 1:10:53 2005-5-19
total bullsh*t, you never predicted Urkaine last year as the winner, you only questioned it!. you did however, on your home page predict Germany or Iceland as the possible winner....
[REPLY FROM GRAHAM: Can't argue with that! I said Ukraine was a 'possible winner' but yes, I thought Iceland or Germany would win when in fact neither did terribly well...]
From Stephanie, UNITED KINGDOM
Added 22:6:56 2005-5-18
Version 1 sucked, version 2 has grown on me! I guess they will do a lot better than people here may think. It's a great song :) but an unlikely winner.....4-8th? Well, I dared an each-way bet at odds 100-1 on them just now....!
From amy, UNITED KINGDOM
Added 11:40:5 2005-5-17
not a patch on Ruslana...
From David HJ, UNITED KINGDOM
Added 23:34:14 2005-5-16
This does not work for me at all - after last year's worthy winner, this is plodding and repetitive- and i think this will suffer with as rating of around 16th 0r 17th despite home ground polite votes.
From chiara d best , MALTA
Added 21:30:29 2005-5-14
Oh God help me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is the WORST song I've ever heard. My prediction is that your place is going to be : After the last. sry no chance 2 win. ;), Since u have no chance 2 win, VOTE 4 MALTA !!!
From ksenija, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Added 19:33:5 2005-5-14
ukraune is nothing!!
your song is bad very bad.....i dont like it!!our is better much better!!!
From VICTORIA, LITHUANIA
Added 22:42:13 2005-5-11
last saturday yours singer were in lithuania:) it was interesting:)i seen yours show.i like that song,but bad thing is that because song words are others.i like when song was about yours president:))))was interesting:))) ruslana was better but this song is alsou not bad.i like it:)good luck for friend of lithuania:) dont forgot vote for us:))))thanks
From Sébastien, FRANCE
Added 15:43:33 2005-5-11
Open your eyes and ears : this Ukrainian rap is awful! It SUCKS! It's maybe one of the worst entries this year! I can't stand listening to it. Horrible, horrible, horrible!
From Khalid, GREECE
Added 15:45:40 2005-5-9
This song is excellent. I didn't like its first version, but the final one is perfect! I hope it does well in the contest, top 10 in worst case. Go Greenjolly! Your song is different from everything else until now!!!
From Ave, ESTONIA
Added 14:21:51 2005-5-9
Nice song and I think it goes quite well but I still like Ruslana much more then this.
From Kateryna, UKRAINE
Added 14:40:45 2005-3-23
LOOK...we have allready got our victory last year...So let's offer the possibility to win to others!i wish the best to take first place, i don't care who, the good musik will save our souls!!!kiss from France
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