Five Stars: Intervision (Russian: Пять звёзд. Интервидение), also known as the Intervision Song Contest 2008, was an international song competition that took place at Festivalny concert hall in Sochi, Russia. Eligible countries that competed in the contest were from the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and former Soviet Republics. Although it takes the name from the former Intervision Song Contest, and it was announced as a revival of it; it has a different organiser, format, and set of participating countries than the original contests; as well as from "Intervision 2025".
Eleven countries confirmed their participation in the contest.
Location
Five Stars: Intervision took place in the coastal Russian city of Sochi.
Participants Night 1 – Original Song The first night saw the 11 participants performing an original song sung either in Russian or their national language. The running order was as follows:
Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Points Place 1 Tajikistan Tajik Tahmina Niyazova "Zangi Telefon" (Занги телефон) Telephone Ring 79 2 2 Turkmen Lachin Mamedova "Kushdepdi" It was cold 43 7 3 Russian Boris Covali "Budesh Zvat" (Будешь звать) Will call 23 9 4 Russian The Dangerous Liaisons "Podarki" (Подарки) Gifts 59 4 5 Latvian Amber "Saucu Tevi" I call you 40 8 6 Russian "Uletat" (Улетаю) Fly away 45 6 7 Belarus Russian The Champions "Ya Begu Na Zemle" (Я бегу по земле) I’m running on the ground 52 5 8 Russian Razmik Amyan "Ty Budesh Moyey" (Ты будешь моей) You will be mine 70 3 9 Russia Russian Kvatro "Romans" (Романс) Romance 81 1 10 Russian Almas Kishkenbaev "Lyubimaya" (Любимая) Beloved 79 2 11 Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz Gulzinat Suranchieva "Kir kerbez" It's dirty 70 3
Night 2 – Retro Hit The second night saw the 11 participants perform hits from the 20th Century and were performed in Russian. The running order was as follows:
Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Points Place 1 Russian Almas Kishkenbaev "Ne Nado Pechalitsya" (Не надо печалиться) Do not be sad 58 5 2 Russian "Pozvoni" (Позвони) Call 55 6 3 Russian The Champions "Tam, Gde Klen Shumit" (Там, где клен шумит) Where the maple rustles 50 7 4 Russian Kvatro "Skazhite, Devushki, Podruzhke Vashey" (Скажите, девушки, подружке вашей) Tell me, girl, your girlfriend 70 1 5 Russian Gulzinat Suranchieva "Molba" (Мольба) Plea 68 3 6 Russian The Dangerous Liaisons "Moya Zemlya" (Моя земля) My land 60 4 7 Russian Amber "O, sudba" Oh fate 45 9 8 Russian Tahmina Niyazova "Tsvety Pod Snegom" (Цветы под снегом) Flowers in the snow 68 3 9 Russian Lachin Mamedova "Nezhnost" (Нежность) Tenderness 45 9 10 Russian Razmik Amyan "Dorogoy Dlinnoyu" (Дорогой длинною) The Long Road 69 2 11 Russian Boris Covali "Melankoliye" (Меланколие) Melankolie 49 8
Night 3 – World Hit The third competitive night of the contest saw the participants performing world hits in the original language of the song. These songs were to be the most suitable for your image. The running order was as follows:
Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Points Place 1 English Boris Covali "The Great Pretender" — 52 6 2 Russian Razmik Amyan "Pamyati Karuzo" (Памяти Карузо) Caruso 60 3 3 Spanish Kvatro "Sola Otra Vez" Alone again 64 2 4 Azerbaijani "Shimarik" 50 8 5 French Amber "Milord" — 57 4 6 English Tahmina Niyazova "Hero" — 69 1 7 English The Dangerous Liaisons "My Number One" — 55 5 8 English Almas Kishkenbaev "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" — 52 6 9 English Gulzinat Suranchieva "La Isla Bonita" The beautiful island 57 4 10 English The Champions "I Like to Move It" — 51 7 11 Arabic Lachin Mamedova "Habiby" My darling 52 6
Night 4 – Gala Night On the Gala Night performers from across the competing nations performed on stage with their hits, performers included Philip Kirkov, Irina Allegrova and others. The night culminated in the announcement of the results.
This meant the final scoreboard results were:
Place Country Points 1 216 2 215 3 199 4 195 5 189 6 174 7 153 8 150 9 142 10 141 11 124
Other awards
Also there were other awards presented for different countries such as:
Award Country Grand Prix First Prize Second Prize Third Prize Press award Debut Intervision Miss Intervision Prize of the City of Sochi Prize for Stylishness CIS Special Prize Fund
Other countries
The contest was open to members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation and other Central Asian countries.
– Georgia was meant to debut at the 2008 contest but withdrew in June 2008 due to the Russo-Georgian War earlier that year. Despite this the organizing committee stated that they would welcome Georgia’s participation. If Georgia went on to participate they would have been represented by Salome Korkotashvili. – Uzbekistan was meant to debut at the 2008 contest but withdrew a couple of days before the contest for unknown reasons. They were really slow at selecting their participant but a week before the contest they selected Shakhnoza Usmanhodzhaeva who would have represented them under the stage name of "Anor". But later it was announced that they would not compete.
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