When is the Junior Eurovision Song Contest? Why in Georgia

For the first time in history, you can help choose the winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest by voting online. From Friday, November 24th you will be able to vote on the website junioreurovision.tv, where you will find videos of the performances of all 16 participants.

Online voting will pause right before the live broadcast of the show on Sunday, November 26 at 18:00 Moscow time, and will begin again as soon as all 16 songs have been performed. Within 15 minutes after the broadcast, you will again have the opportunity to vote.

All your votes will be sent to the Junior Eurovision Voting Center, where they will be converted into points, which will then appear on the scoreboard. Your votes are exactly half of the performer’s total points. The other half will be determined by the jury.

As always, the winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be the song that scores maximum amount points!

The final of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will be shown live on the Karusel TV channel on November 26 at 18:00 Moscow time.

Muscovite Polina Bogusevich will represent Russia at the competition with the song “Wings”. This is a serious composition that touches on very important topic- the topic of child abuse in dysfunctional families. Many children around the world are suffering from the "war" in own home. In the lyrics of the song, this problem is expressed figuratively, using original figures of speech. By the way, in the video clip for the song a very interesting move was invented - the video story ends on an unsaid note, with the phrase “to be continued.” And viewers will be able to see this continuation already on the Junior Eurovision stage and on the air of the Karusel TV channel.

Polina Bogusevich

Bogusevich Polina Sergeevna is a Russian singer.

Born on July 4, 2003 in Moscow (14 years old). He studies at Lyceum 1586. Parents are Yulia Vasilievna Bogusevich.

Polina is a student at the Academy popular music Igor Krutoy, artist of the music label A-TEENS.

She has been involved in music professionally for many years: in 2014 she took part in the first season of the show “The Voice. Children”, in the same year she became a 2nd degree laureate of the international competition “Children’s New Wave”. In addition, she participated in the television project “Song of the Year 2014”, “Christmas Song of the Year”, “Children’s Song of the Year”, and also became a laureate of the 1st degree of the international competition “Sanremo Junior 2015”.

Polina’s arsenal includes participation in the “First Fifty” concert in the Kremlin, as well as in anniversary concert Sergei Zhilin and the Phonograph orchestra in 2016. The artist also reached the super final of the Battle of Talents 2016 competition.

On November 26, 2017, in the final of the international vocal competition “Junior Eurovision 2017” in Tbilisi, Polina Bogusevich will represent Russia with the song “Wings”.

TBILISI, November 26 – Sputnik. The long-awaited final of the fifteenth annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place today, November 26, 2017, at the Tbilisi Olympic Palace.

The competition will begin at 19:00, live broadcast will be conducted by the First Channel of the Georgian Public Broadcaster.

Why in Georgia

Georgia received the right to host the fifteenth competition after the victory of ten-year-old performer Mariam Mamadashvili at Eurovision 2016. With the song "Mzeo" (sun - translated from Georgian), the Georgian was ahead of representatives of 17 countries, gaining 239 points.

The organizers of the competition were informed that Georgia was ready to host Eurovision in 2017 immediately after the victory. However, as is known, unlike the adult Eurovision, the winning country does not automatically receive the right to host the competition in next year. As a result, the final decision to hold the show in Georgia was made some time later by the European Broadcasting Union.

Georgia won the Junior Eurovision for the third time - this is the best result in the entire history of the song contest. In 14 years, it was won twice by Malta and Belarus. In 2008, the Georgian quartet “Bzikebi” won the Eurovision Song Contest, and in 2011, the group Candy. Mariam Mamadashvili brought Georgia the third victory.

Representative of Georgia, 12-year-old Grigol Kipshidze will perform at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song “Voice of the Heart”.

Speaking order

Participating in the 2017 competition are Georgia, Russia, Australia, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Ireland, Italy, Cyprus, Macedonia, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Ukraine. There are 16 countries in total.

The draw for the countries participating in the Junior Eurovision Vocal Competition 2017 took place on November 20 at the official opening ceremony of the event at the Tbilisi National Parliamentary Library.

The representative of Georgia, Grigol Kipshidze, will compete in the final as number nine. The show will be opened by a performer from Cyprus, Nicole Nicolaou, and will be closed by a representative from Italy, Maria Iside Fiore.

The order of presentations by participants is as follows:

3. Netherlands

4. Armenia

5. Belarus

6. Portugal

7. Ireland

8. Macedonia

10. Albania

11. Ukraine

12. Malta

13. Russia

14. Serbia

15. Australia

16. Italy

Predictions for victory

Bookmakers and music critics made their predictions for the winner. Thus, wiwibloggs.com, which specializes in reviews, news and Eurovision diaries, based on the results of a survey on its portal, predicts the victory of Helena Meraai from Belarus.

The top 5 winners, as noted, also included Georgia, Armenia, Russia and the Netherlands.

1. Belarus: Helena Meraai 28.84% (10386 votes)

8. Ukraine: Anastasia Baginskaya 2.22% (801 votes)

12. Australia: Isabella Clarke 1.54% (555 votes)

15. Portugal: Marianna Venancio 0.91% (328 votes)

Where will the next competition take place?

The Children's Eurovision Song Contest will be held in the capital of Belarus for the second time, according to a message on the website (EBC).

The European Broadcasting Union has already decided on the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 years will pass In Minsk. Belarus will host the competition for the second time

The song competition was held for the first time in the capital of Belarus in 2010.

Belarus has participated in all Eurovision contests since 2003, when it was founded. Representatives of the country won the competition twice - Ksenia Sitnik in 2005 and Alexey Zhigalkovich in 2007.

competition.

The Russian woman performed the composition “Wings,” which scored a total of 188 points and took first place in the competition table.

The second place with 185 points was taken by the representative of Georgia, 12-year-old Grigol Kipshidze, and the third place was taken by the Australian Isabella Clark, who scored 172 points.

Ukraine was represented by 12-year-old Anastasia Baginskaya with the song “Don’t stop.” She took seventh place.

Representatives from 16 countries (Ukraine, Australia, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Cyprus, Macedonia, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia and Serbia) competed for victory in the children's song competition this year, reports " UA: FIRST." The participant from Ukraine entered the stage at number 11.

The slogan of this year's Junior Eurovision is "Shine Bright".

The second stage of voting started immediately after last performance in the final of the competition. It lasted 15 minutes. The results of online audience voting amounted to 50% of the total results of the contestants. The participants received the second half of the points from a professional jury.

According to the Russian TASS agency, Polina Bogusevich is a student of Igor Krutoy’s Academy of Popular Music. In 2012, she took part in the international art festival "Jezerski Biseri" in Macedonia, and in the same year she took part in the television projects "Window to Paris" and "School of Music".

In 2014, Bogusevich took part in the first season of the show “The Voice. Children”, where she performed in the team of Dima Bilan. In 2015, she received a first degree diploma from the international vocal competition "San Remo" for children and teenagers.

It is worth noting that, unlike adult Eurovision, the winning country at children's competition does not automatically receive the right to host it next year. The location is decided by the European Broadcasting Union. Thus, Georgia hosted Junior Eurovision for the first time, although representatives of this country won the competition three times: in 2008, 2011 and 2016.

It is already known that Eurovision 2018 will be held in Belarus.

• On August 26, it became known that Anastasia Baginskaya with the song “Don’t Stop” became the winner of the national selection for Junior Eurovision 2017. The winner was chosen through a mixed vote of audience and jury. TV viewers could send SMS for their favorites. Members of the jury, which included music and sound producer Vadim Lisitsa, singer Irina Shvaidak, singer and actor EL Kravchuk, singer and composer Svetlana Tarabarova, as well as singer and musician ROZHDEN, gave their assessments.

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On June 3, the final of the Russian selection for Junior Eurovision 2017 took place in the Crimean camp “Artek”. More than three thousand children vacationing at the International Children's Center. The winner was the one who scored the maximum number of points - 36. It is she who will represent Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in November this year in Georgia. In total, 21 participants from different corners Russia. At the same time, 20 contestants were selected based on the results of previously sent applications and the semi-final held at the Igor Krutoy Academy of Popular Music. And the 21st finalist of the project “You are super!” - ten-year-old Kirill Yesin. Polina Bogusevich - Wings The winner of the selection was determined by the sum of points from the audience's Internet voting and the professional jury (in brackets, the first number is 12 additional points from the Igor Krutoy Academy of Popular Music, the second is the audience's points, and the third is the jury): 1. - “Wings”: 36 ( 12+12+12) 2. - “I would like to know everything”: 27 (12+8+7) 3. - “Gravity”: 27(12+5+10) 4. - “ Bright dancing": 25 (12+7+6) 5. - "Pair": 25 (12+10+3) 6. Group "Ochechi" - "Weekend": 25 (12+3+10) 7. - "Believe" : 22 (12+6+4) 8. Ksenia Neznamova - “Clouds”: 22 (12+4+6) 9. Yulia Kondrashenko - “My Music”: 22 (12+0+10) 10. Group “Curls” - “Curls”: 21 (12+0+9) 11. Group “Kinder Star” - “Pyjama Party”: 20 (12+2+6) 12. Vladlena Gubareva - “Crow”: 20 (12+0+8 ) 13. Duet “Emoji” - “Time does not wait”: 19 (12+0+7) 14. - “Gadgets”: 19 (12+0+7) 15. Victoria Bezdomnikova - “Provocation”: 19 (12+ 0+7) 16. Glafira Leukhina - “Moments”: 18 (12+0+6) 17. Anna Chernotalova - “This Music”: 18 (12+1+5) 18. - “Pulse of the Planet”: 18 (12 +0+6) 19. Ulyana Ovchinnikova - “Let’s Fly Away”: 17 (12+0+5) 20. Group “Papaya” - “Higher”: 17 (12+0+5) 21. Elvira Kirsanova - “Dream” : 15 (12+0+3) Let us add that the professional jury included composers Grigory Gladkov and Evgeniy Krylatov, general director of " Children's radio» Evgeny Kombarov, head of the Karusel TV channel Tatyana Tsyvareva, Russian performer Dina Garipova, as well as Lerika, participant in Junior Eurovision 2011 and 2012. Polina Bogusevich was born in 2004. She is 13 years old, she lives in Moscow, studies vocals and choreography. In 2012 young singer became a laureate of the III degree of the international art festival “Ezerski Beads”, held in Macedonia. In the same year, she became a participant in the television projects “Window to Paris” and “School of Music”. In 2014, the girl took part in the first season of the show “The Voice. Children,” her mentor on the project was Dima Bilan, but she was only able to reach the stage of fights. In 2014, Polina also took part in the final of the Children's New wave, in which she took second place. In addition, Bogusevich was at one time a participant in such popular musical projects as “Song of the Year 2014”, “Christmas Song of the Year 2014”, “Children’s Song of the Year 2014”. Let us recall that Russia took part in Junior Eurovision 12 times, debuting in 2005 with the song “Road to the Sun” performed by Vlad Krutskikh. He scored 66 points and took 9th place. But the following year, 2006, the Tolmachev sisters, representing their country with the song “Spring Jazz,” won. Last year Russia was represented by the project “ Living water", took 4th place.

This will be the second match of the Russian team in the current qualifying tournament. Let us remember that in the first meeting Russia met with Belgium, to which they lost with a score of 1:3.

The Russia-Kazakhstan meeting will take place on March 24, 2019 in the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan - the city of Astana(which was renamed literally in a couple of hours on March 20 to Nur-Sultan by decision of parliament members). And how can we not remember one of the jokes dedicated to the renaming of the city, and not say in relation to the Russian national football team that it “flew to Astana and arrived in Nur-Sultan.” Officially, the city changed its name on March 23, 2019, after the signing of the corresponding Decree by the new head of state Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

The match will be held at the Astana Arena stadium(“Nur-Sultan Arena”). Starts at 17:00 Moscow time (20:00 local time).

That is:
* Venue of the match - Kazakhstan, Astana (Nur-Sultan), Astana Arena.
* Broadcast start time is 17:00 Moscow time.

Where to watch the match Russia - Kazakhstan live:

In Kazakhstan Live broadcast of the national football teams' games can be seen on the channel "QAZAQSTAN" at 20:00 local time.

March 18 in Crimea is a day off or a working day:

That is:
* March 18 is a day off in Crimea and Sevastopol.

If March 18 coincides with a holiday (as, for example, happens in 2023), the holiday is transferred to the next working day.

If a holiday coincides with annual paid leave, March 18 is not included in the number of calendar days of leave, but extends it.

Is March 17 a shortened working day:

This norm is established in Article 95 Labor Code RF and applies to working days preceding, among other things, regional holidays.

International Women's Day on March 8 is a UN observance, and the organization includes 193 states. Memorable dates, announced by the General Assembly, are designed to encourage UN members to show increased interest in these events. However, on this moment not all member states of the United Nations have approved the celebration women's day in their territories on the specified date.

Below is a list of countries that celebrate International Women's Day. Countries are grouped into groups: in a number of states the holiday is an official non-working day (day off) for all citizens, on March 8th only women rest, and there are states where they work on March 8th.

In which countries is the holiday March 8 a day off (for everyone):

* In Ukraine- International Women's Day continues to remain an additional holiday, despite regular proposals to exclude the event from the list of non-working days and replace it, for example, with Shevchenko Day, which will be celebrated on March 9.
* In Abkhazia.
* In Azerbaijan.
* In Algeria.
* In Angola.
* In Armenia.
* In Afghanistan.
* In Belarus.
* To Burkina Faso.
* In Vietnam.
* In Guinea-Bissau.
* In Georgia.
* In Zambia.
* In Kazakhstan.
* In Cambodia.
* In Kenya.
* In Kyrgyzstan.
* IN DPRK.
* In Cuba.
* In Laos.
* In Latvia.
* In Madagascar.
* In Moldova.
* In Mongolia.
* In Nepal.
* In Tajikistan- since 2009, the holiday was renamed Mother's Day.
* In Turkmenistan.
* In Uganda.
* In Uzbekistan.
* In Eritrea.
* In South Ossetia.

Countries where March 8 is a women's-only day off:

* In China.
* In Madagascar.

Which countries celebrate March 8, but it is a working day:

* Austria.
* Bulgaria.
* Bosnia and Herzegovina.
* Germany- in Berlin, since 2019, March 8 is a day off, in the country as a whole it is a working day.
* Denmark.
* Italy.
* Cameroon.
* Romania.
* Croatia.
* Chile.
* Switzerland.

In which countries is March 8 NOT celebrated?

* In the USA, the holiday is not an official holiday. In 1994, an attempt by activists to get the celebration approved by Congress failed.

* IN Czech Republic(Czech Republic) - most of the country's population views the holiday as a relic of the communist past and main symbol old regime.