Running order drawn!

This afternoon live from Moscow the running order was drawn for both semi finals and the directly qualified countries in the final. The event was hosted by Yana Churikova, who also hosted the allocation draw determining which semi final the various countries would compete in, she also co-hosted the national Russian final this year. With her on stage was last year's winner Dima Bilan, who actually performed the physical draw. During the almost 1 hour long event we got the following result:

1st semi final (to be held 12th May)

1. Montenegro
2. Czech Republic
3. Belgium
4. Belarus
5. Sweden
6. Armenia
7. Andorra
8. Switzerland
9. Turkey
10. Israel
11. Bulgaria
12. Iceland
13. FYR Macedonia
14. Romania
15. Finland
16. Portugal
17. Malta
18. Bosnia & Herzegovina

2nd semi final (to be held 14th May):

1. Croatia
2. Ireland
3. Latvia
4. Serbia
5. Poland
6. Norway
7. Cyprus
8. Slovakia
9. Denmark
10. Slovenia
11. Hungary
12. Azerbaijan
13. Greece
14. Lithuania
15. Moldova
16. Albania
17. Ukraine
18. Estonia
19. Netherlands

Final (to be held 16th May)

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3. France
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10. Russia
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17. Germany
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23. United Kingdom
24.
25. Spain

I will comment on this draw and give my predictions on the qualifiers soon.