My wife and I watched the entire show and were extatic when Ukraine won. I liked the song but mainly it was because: NEXT YEAR EVERYONE WILL SEE HOW WONDERFUL KYIV IS!! You see the winners host next the next contest. What a great chance for the country to get exposure!! Wonderful stuff!!!
Jadis7 thank you a lot for the nice and kind words about my country and my country's capital!!! Thank you a lot!!! Kiev is really a very beautiful city, and I hope that everybody will see it:))
Jadis, thats why its been held in England so many damn times :o)
Ptichka:
Kiev is indeed a very beautiful city, but it has always angered me that all the wealth of Ukraine seems to be poured into making Kiev beautiful while other cities get little or nothing !!
Scott: Tourism to Kiev is quite high already mate, that why they spend so much of the countires wealth on it, its their golden goose, but if they dont start spending in other cities pretty soon there will be a rebellion !!
Well I think that at first the capital of the country should be put into order...and then the rest of the cities, by the way Lvov always was a very beautiful city...
The problem with cities in the east of Ukraine, is that originally they were coal-miners cities...and that didn't bring too much into their beauty...just working cities, and much time will be needed to bring them back into order. The situation with cities on the North, West and in the Crimea is much more better then on East:)
Maybe maybe...actually I'm not fond of Donetsk, when I was passing through it a year ago, there was just one great street, the main street, and as far as I know there is one main sightseeing..."McDonalds", when they put ads about busses to the Black or Azov sea, they write "...visiting McDonalds in Donetsl"....actually I don't think that it's even worth mentioning...if this is a main sightseeing...then I just keep silence...
Lugansk's monument to the Blessed Virgin is a sightseeing of more meening and is more beautiful!!!:)
I'm sorry to speak about McDonalds this way, but I'm not a fan of it...
"Lugansk's monument to the Blessed Virgin is a sightseeing of more meening and is more beautiful!!!:)"
I couldnt agree with you more dear !!
Sadly there is some stupid western thing about McDonalds being so wonderful !!! Their food is not healthy and the service is usually poor at best !! It is very over rated, and Burger King is no better !!
I need to hear more about Donetsk. Assuming my trip to Kiev to meet my lady (my?) works out, I will be traveling to see her at home (Makeevka). I'd be traveling to meet her, her son and her family and friends, but I would hope that there would be something to see and do.
Makeevka...it's not far from Donetsk if I'm correct, I don't have my map of Ukraine with me.
Well what can I say about Donetsk...personally I don't like...just because I got used of seeing almost the same "faces" of the buildings, which are left after the USSR...
Donetsk is much bigger the Lugansk, if my memory is correct there are about 1 000 000 people. My friends say that there are many good night-clubs, but again they say that these clubs are rather expensive for a usual citizen of Ukraine. There is a great Medical Institute, that's for sure:)))
I remember there is a very nice old street, my dad and me were driving it. Hey in Donetsk there are lots of cops, they stand on each corner...this is good, but when you don't see the traffic lights, when driving a car, as they hang in the strange place...then it's good if there is no any cop at the corner:)))
The songs this year where very generic and predictable, with a few exceptions.
I honestly thought the Ukrainian entry was the best, but also liked the S&M entry!!!!! ooh-eer!
OTOH I thought the Russian entry was terrible - badly sung and an unremarkable song.
I agree with Ptichka, the development of Kyiv should take presidence, but I also see major development in Mariupol (my wife's home city) so I don't think it is limited to Kyiv. Then again I believe a lot of the work is financed by the 'controlling' businesses in each city, so I think it is also a dependent of localised influences rather than central government.
Actually here, I mean in Ukraine and Russia, many people thought that Russia would win. Why??? Because they were so proud of their Uliya Savicheva...they said she was the best and so on and so forth...
Jadis you're correct many things depend on the business inside the town, on the city authority, when it was Danilov - the head of Lugansk, Lugansk was coming more beautiful with each day (At least it seamed that way, he really did many things in the city, solved the problem with transport, gurbage, and so on and so forth:) but some people wanted the other head and they changed him...but he still tries to return.
I really hope for the great future of Lugansk too:)))
I havnt heard any of htis years songs at all ID, apart from the UK one and that certainly didnt deserve to place never mind win.
I dont watch Eurovision, Miss World, or anything to do with football, all 3 bore the sh*t out of me :o)