By Khilen Mehta

Well it´s official. Votes have been counted, political bias has been taken into account and a professional career has been forged. Televoters from 43 countries have decided that the winner of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest is Dima Bilan representing Russia with his song Believe!

Russia won this year’s edition receiving 272 points. The runner-ups were Ukraine’s Ani Lorak and Greece’s Kalomira in third place. Great Britain continued to proved what years of colonisation have done to their reputation as they finished joint bottom with Poland.

Dima Bilan said this was a commemorable day, and he sincerely thanked the team behind him. They did not always smile, Dima Bilan said, but it has been a long, hard journey. Moreover he gave a personal thanks to Eugeni Pluschenko, who was the figure skater next to Bilan during his performance of Believe. He has also decided to donate the Eurovision trophy to the composer of the song.

In Spain itself almost 14 million tuned into the television on saturday night to watch Chiki Chiki debut to the rest of Europe, a record of the last six years. Unfortunately although the performance entertained everyone, it was never going to win over the hearts of all of Europe.

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