Minsk Chooses the Winner of "Junior Eurovision Song Contest"

The winner of the "Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010" was chosen in Minsk on November 20. In the result of the joint jury voting from 14 European countries, the representative of Armenia, Vladimir Arzumanyan, being one point ahead of Russian Lisa Drozd and Sasha Lazin, took 1st position. This is reported by Telegraf correspondent.

The intrigue of the contest was kept until the last moment, and only Macedonia, who’d given ten points to Armenia, made it the winner.

Belarusian Daniel Kozlov, who collected 85 points with the song «Light of Music», ocupied 5th place. Latvia and Georgia passed him the treasured 12 points. In general, the final table is as follows:

1. Armenia —  Vladimir Arzumanyan — Mommy — 120 points
2. Russia — Lisa Drozd and Sasha Lazin — Boy And Girl — 119 points
3. Serbia — Sonia Skorich — Carobna Noc / Magical Night — 113 Points
4. Georgia — Mariam Kahelishvili — Mari Dari — 109 points
5. Belarus — Daniel Kozlov — Light of Music — 85 points
6. Lithuania — Bartas — Oki-doki — 67 points
7. Belgium — Jill and Lauren — Get Up! — 61 points
8. Moldova — Stefan Roskovan — Ali Baba — 54 points
9. Netherlands — Anna and Senna — My Family — 52 points
10. Latvia — Charlotte and Sea Stones — Viva La Dance — 51 points
11. Sweden — Josephine Rydell — Allt Jag Vill Ha — 48 points
12. Macedonia — Anya Veterova — Eooo, Eooo — 38 points
13. Malta — Nicole — Knock Knock !…. Boom! Boom! — 35 points
14. Ukraine — Yulia Gurskaya — Miy lіtak — 28 points

The show was opened by Ksenia Sitnik (2005 winner), Aleksei Zhihalkovich (winner 2007) and Alexander Rybak (winner of the adult «Eurovision» Song Contest 2009). Other winners of the Junior «Eurovision» Song Contest, such as Dmitri Koldun, who had represented Belarus at «Eurovision 2007», also attended the song festival. Presenters of the competition were Leila Ismailova and Denis Kurian.

It’s the first time when Belarus has carried out the show of Junior «Eurovision-2010.» The venue for the contest was the sports complex «Minsk-Arena.»