By Yuri Yaroshik: The first Eurovision semi-final featured 18 contestants, 10 of which - Azerbaijan, Russia, the Netherlands, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Armenia, the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Malta - were selected by the international jury.
Culture
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest is expected to be the most technologically advanced and beat the record of 2013. The show will be commented on by Evgeny Perlin for Belarusian viewers.
18 artists will perform on the main music scene of Europe. Only 10 of them will reach the final. This competition will be the most technologically advanced in history.
Victory Day is celebrated around the world. Europe celebrated the Victory Day yesterday. IVAN congratulates the Belarusians on the holiday (video).
A celebratory concert has already begun at the Victory Square. The songs of the war years are performed by Belarusian and Russian singers accompanied by the Presidential Orchestra.
For the next few days Stockholm will be the musical capital of the world. Yesterday the Euroweek started here. The first semi-final of the main European song contest will be held on Tuesday.
Belarus’ main fashion contest Mill of Fashion, scheduled to launch next week, will celebrate its anniversary this year. In five years’ time tens of budding designers have become real professionals.
Belarus’ Eurovision representative IVAN is scheduled to hold his second individual rehearsal in Stockholm today. The main Eurovision stage will be at the singer’s disposal for half an hour, which is enough to rehearse the performance four times and make corrections to it.
By Ksenia Lebedeva: The short documentary film about the legendary Soviet-French squadron Normandie-Niemen, directed by Yegor Klimovich, has premiered on the eve of Victory Day.
Outstanding Belteleradiocompany employees have received awards on the eve of Radio, Television and Communication Workers Day.
Minsk is hosting an international forum of student choirs. Amateur groups from Belarus, as well as Denmark, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania and Serbia are taking part in the Fern Flower contest.
Belarusian Academy of Music begins celebrations in honor of the 95th anniversary of the legendary choral musician, People's Artist of USSR Victor Rovdo.
The International Scientific Congress discusses the ways of preserving the identity of the Belarusian culture in the world.
For these 7 days the city will become the musical capital of the world. Preparation for hosting such a large-scale show takes a whole year.
Ivan performed his song three times, and the delegation was able to see different versions of shooting the performance
The performer and his backing vocalists are working out the vocal and choreography elements. Today IVAN will hold his first rehearsal on the main stage.
Today the program of the 25th Arts Festival Slavic Bazaar was announced. Thus, the international forum will be held from July, 14 to 18.
The exhibition of Andrei Kasai came to Minsk directly from New York. The exhibition is located in the industrial art space in the center of Minsk and will last until Friday.
Olga Medved: The mystical Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades" will feature Irina Bogacheva. A few years ago the People's Artist of the USSR already performed in Minsk's theater and enjoyed great success.
It will include 30 oriental manuscripts written in Arabic script from museums of rare books. For example, the oldest book on the territory of the post-Soviet space dates back to the 12th century and another Arabic manuscript was written in 1377.
Daria Tarasova: Artifacts from the era of Gediminas, Vytautas and Jagiellonian dynasty. Archaeological artifacts were taken straight from Vilnius Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania.
Darya Belousova-Petrovskaya: The live broadcast will be provided by channels Belarus 1 and Belarus 24. Every minute in IVAN's schedule is busy.
Representative of our country Ivan flew to the capital of the main musical show of Europe. Preparation for the contest will be covered by the crew of our TV News Agency.
At the international song contest in Stockholm IVAN, our representative, is accompanied by a team of professionals. They are members of the production center of Victor Drobyshev and representatives of BTRC.












