Famous designers for the beautiful Tolmachevy girls

The Tolmachevy Sisters.

Moscow, Russia - Upcoming weeks before Europe’s favourite TV show are the very busy ones for the participants. The preparations for the stage performance and costume design are in full swing for the Tolmachevy sisters whilst the twins are practicing their vocal abilities.

Fokas Evangelinos, the Greek choreographer will work on stage performance of the Tolmachevy sisters. He is famous for the outstanding and especially striking styles. The Eurovision performances of Farid Mammadov, Sakis Rouvas and Ani Lorak, the participants in the 2013, 2009 and 2008 Eurovision Song Contests, respectively, have been staged by Fokas Evangelinos. This week, Fokas Evangelinos is arriving in Moscow where he is going to work on the stage performance for the Russian participants.
The stage costumes for the 17-year-old Maria and Anastasia will be drafted by the famous Russian designer Ulyana Sergeenko. Her brand is popular among the world stars such as Beyoncé, Natalia Vodianova and Dita Von Teese.
In Copenhagen, the Tolmachevy sisters want to repeat their victory of the 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest as they said in their interview with RTR.

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Russia sends the Tolmachevy Twins to Copenhagen

The Tolmachevy Twins, the Russian representatives in Copenhagen.

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Eurovision fans remember the Tolmachevy Twins from 2006 when the girls, at the age of nine, won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Bucharest, Romania. With their song Vesennij Jazz (The Spring Jazz), they reached 154 points. Now, Anastasiya and Maria, talented and grown up stars, are facing another bigger challenge – the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest!
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Moscow, Russia - The Tolmachevy Twins gained the trophy for Russia achieving the impressive victory in the 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Now, Anastasiya and Maria, talented and grown up stars, are facing another bigger challenge – the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest!

Today, the Russian broadcaster RTR announced the Tolmachevy Twins as their representatives in Copenhagen. This choice has been made internally by an expert jury. After eight years, Anastasiya and Maria, are back in the Eurovision world.

About Anastasiya and Maria

Maria and Anastasiya were born on the 14th of January 1997 in the city of Kursk that is in western Russia. Their talent for music showed at an early age. Their mother is a music teacher who was leading them. At the age of six girls took classes in the music studio Sverchok.
Eurovision fans remember the Tolmachevy Twins from 2006 when the girls, at the age of nine, won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Bucharest, Romania. With their song Vesennij Jazz (The Spring Jazz), they reached 154 points.
In 2007, the Tolmachevy Twins participated in the opening ceremony of the international festival of arts Slavianski Bazaar. In the same year, they also released their album Polovinki (The Halves). The sisters stared in the musical Kingdom Of Crooked Mirrors.
The Tolmachevy Twins took part in the opening act of the First Semi-Final of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Dressed like angels, they landed on stage on the legendary animal called Firebird. Here you can recollect that exciting show in Moscow in 2009:

Semi-Final 1 dress rehearsals

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Initially, RTR intentended to choose the Russian participant through the project called Kto? (Who?). But the plans had been changed and the candidate has been chosen internally.

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Eurovision Supervisor addresses concerns on Russia

 

Geneva, Switzerland - In an interview with host broadcaster, DR, Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest, Jon Ola Sand, has responded to concerns surrounding the implementation of Russia’s new laws against so-called ”homosexual propaganda” and how they could affect the competition if again held in Russia.

The Reference Group of the Eurovision Song Contest has sent an official letter to Russia’s two largest TV channels. Here they asked questions about whether the country’s much debated laws on "non-traditional sexual relations" will have an impact if Russia again should win the right to host the Eurovision Song Contest.
”From our side, this is completely undramatic”, explains Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest, Jon Ola Sand.
”We have been asked by several of our member states and by journalists and fans, whether the new laws could affect the Eurovision Song Contest. That is why we have been in dialogue with the two Russian TV companies that are members of the EBU”, he says in an interview with Danish broadcaster, DR.
”There is no reason to believe that we cannot organise the Eurovision Song Contest in Russia”, he affirms.

It's up to the individual countries to decide

According to the German magazine Stern, a Swedish member of the Reference Group has raised doubts about whether Sweden would participate if Russia wins again. However, this has not been confirmed as the official position of Swedish broadcaster, SVT, Jon Ola Sand informs.
”Every year there is a discussion about who will take part in the competition and it is naturally up to each individual broadcaster to decide”, he says.
Russia hosted a very successful edition of the Eurovision Song Contest back in 2009, when Norway took home the victory with Alexander Rybak's megahit Fairytale.

Russia calls musicians for the national selection

Dina Garipova, last year's Russian representative.

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Moscow, Russia - It’s the turn for the Russian broadcaster RTR to choose their contestant for Europe’s biggest musical show. The first rules have been announced and therefore Russia has started their search for their representative in Denmark.

While the Russian broadcaster Channel One Russia was in charge of sending their participant Dina Garipova to Malmö in 2013, the responsibility has switched to RTR for choosing their artist for the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.
The Russian public broadcaster RTR published a press release calling on musicians for the national selection. All musically talented singers with an extraordinary voice and artistic skills are welcome to take a chance and send in their applications during the next two months. This project is called Kto? that means Who?.
In the end, only the TV viewers will decide who they want to represent their country in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.
In 2012, RTR organised the Russian national selection and sent Buranovskiye Babushki who took for Russia a second place in Baku. In 2013, Channel One Russia sent Dina Garipova to Malmö where she came fifth.

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