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Ukraine graced the Eurovision scene in 2003 with Hasta La Vista, performed by Oleksandr Ponomaryov. Although many fans feared the song would score well enough to win, the actual vote proved something completely different. However, after that Ukraine has become one of the most successful countries in Eurovision. Most notable was their victory, a year after their debut, when the country sent local cavelady Ruslana to Istanbul with her Wild Dances, and in 2007 when Verka Serduchka put the word Ailulu in the dictionaries around the continent.
Ukraine graced the Eurovision scene in 2003 with Hasta La Vista, performed by Oleksandr Ponomaryov. Although many fans feared the song would score well enough to win, the actual vote proved something completely different. However, after that Ukraine has become one of the most successful countries in Eurovision. Most notable was their victory, a year after their debut, when the country sent local cavelady Ruslana to Istanbul with her Wild Dances, and in 2007 when Verka Serduchka put the word Ailulu in the dictionaries around the continent.
2008
Karolina Myroslavivna Kuiek, a rocker better known by the reverse of her first name Ani Lorak was internally selected. She already made an effort to enter ESC a few times before, but so far she had always lost to the government's favourites. In her one-singer national final the song Shady Lady was selected to represent Ukraine. Surprisingly it just happened to be the one song written by Philip Kirkorov, who will use any means to promote Ani in Belgrade. The lyrics are written by a guy (yes, we swear, he's a bloke!) named Karen.
Latest news entries about Ukraine
* Melovin's song for Ukraine - Fri 11 Mar
* "Tick-Tock" for Ukraine - Sat 21 Dec
* Ukraine selects its JESC representative - Sun 8 Jul
* Be Ukraine's (G)(H)uest - Sat 18 Feb
* To be (free) or Not to be (free)? [update] - Sat 20 Mar
* Another joke entry for Ukraine? [vid] - Sun 8 Mar
* Ani Lorak collaborates with DAA in campaign for AIDS awareness - Wed 2 Apr