Actually Belgrade won. Perfect organization, magnificent show and first time that there were 43 contestants (the biggest number of countries so far) and two semi-finals.
The basketball legend Vlade Divac threw a ball in the audience announcing the start of voting and we came till the end of voting with famous Goran Bregovic.
At the beginning it looked as if Greece was going to win and after Icelandic votes they had equal number of votes like Russia.
After first 20 countries voted the result was as follows:
Russia 130 points
Greece 123
Armenia 92
Czech Republic will remember this evening for sure because the announcer of their votes mixed up 10 and 12 points which eventually were meant for Armenia.
When there were two countries left till the end of voting Russia had 53 points more than Greece.
Dima Bilan believed and won with 272 points bringing the first Eurovision victory to Russia!
We can safely say that the famous pattern - bloc voting was at its peak this year.
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Block Voting was the winner this year, but i`m good because was Russia who won and not Greece or Ukraine, this year certainly Russia came with a very prepared performance, with a lot of drama and with the support of almost 9 countries of the ex-Soviet republic…I feel very bad for Iceland, they were my favorite and they miss a lot of points, also Portugal was underrated too…Every year i´m more used to lose my hope in this show, but well, i`ll never give up,i`m still “Believing” in ESC…Greetings From Oranjestaad, and Congratz to Russia and to Serbia, the do incredible better that others years, im pleased….See ya in Moscow (i think)
Thanks to Aruba!
I suppose we could’ve expected such voting pattern and I can’t say I’m happy with the results but.. it could have been worse.
I also want to thank our Slovenian brothers! Because the guy that was announcing their votes said:
Dobro vece braco Srbi! (good evening brothers Serbians) Thank you very much for everything this year - 12 points to Serbia
yeah,It sounds so great (good evening brothers Serbians) but interest of slovenian are bigger than any song!they have made their business throughout serbia to Russia…so ,tnx but we are not monkeys!!!
I put 200 euros and bet that Dima will win this yeah and it’s so amazing!
You must know-this yeah one of balcan republics ,next year one or ex russian and after that one od scandi;s republic…and over and over again!
so,see u in Moscow 2009 and “for example”Sweden or Norway”2010…hmmm,maybe greece or turkey but def.no Uk ,france,portuguese who had a very,very nice song this year…it’s so easy and not interesting…
Dima sırtıqlığıva salib axirki 1-ci oldun gözüve girsin bele qalibiyyət
Hey admin, go here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RBRu0WTDTIY , it’s the Russian version of the song
euw I don’t like it in Russian either
The way he sings it seriously annoys me!
Well, he at least doesn’t sing with a wrong accent
but you should still add it to the site though, seeing as you already have added the Spanish one
Yeah that is true
and I will add it soon for sure.
Also.. i think I will translate “Believe” into Serbian
ah ok
You want a Swedish translation too? I could make one tomorrow if you want too, not now probably cause I’m probably going to bed soon 
It would be good if you have time! PM me and I will put it in a post