Сегодня - немного о победе Украины на Евровидении-2004!
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Ruslana of Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Wild Dances" in a colorful performance inspired by mountain folk music.
Ruslana beat out Zeljko Joksimovic and the Ad Hoc Orchestra of Serbia and Montenegro, the first entry in 12 years from the country formerly known as Yugoslavia.
Ruslana's performance -- inspired by the folk music and dances of highlanders in the Carpathian Mountains -- included traditional instruments, a fast dance routine mixed with acrobatic moves, flamboyant costumes of fur and leather, and a background that included shooting flames.
Greece's Sakis Rouvas, the favorite in Europe's most publicized song contest, took third.
More than 100 million viewers were expected to tune in to watch contestants from 24 countries participating in the finals.
Bookmakers had largely pointed to Rouvas, whose performance of "Shake it!" combines Greek rhythms and provocative dancing, as the favorite in the contest. But Ruslana had been considered another top contender.
The win means that Ukraine will host the contest next year.
Sertab Erener, a classically trained soprano who shook her belly to win the Eurovision contest for Turkey last year, opened Saturday's show with a medley of her songs and dances that also included a performance by Turkey's traditional whirling dervishes.
Security was tight following suicide attacks in Istanbul last November blamed on al-Qaeda that killed 62 people. Scores of police were on guard outside the venue and atop the ancient city walls across the street.
The street in front of the downtown Abdi Ipekci arena, where the contest was held Saturday night, was closed to traffic. Police also stopped a group of about 100 people from approaching the venue to stage a demonstration protesting next month's NATO summit in Istanbul.
Created in 1956 by the Geneva-based European Broadcasting Union, Eurovision has become one of Europe's most popular annual music events and the biggest pop music pageant of its kind in the world.
The Swedish rock group Abba, which won 30 years ago with the song "Waterloo," is the best-known group to win the competition and go on to a major international career.
Песня "Wild Dances" Русланы Лижичко (Ruslana Lyzhychko).
Лирика и тексты песен с Конкурса Песни Евровидение 2004.
Wild Dances
Just maybe I'm crazy
The world spins round and round and round
Shee-ree-kee-die, shee-ree-kee-dam-day
Shee-ree-kee-die, shee-kee-ree-a-dam-da
I want you to want me
As I dance round and round and round
Shee-ree-kee-die, shee-ree-kee-dam-day
Shee-ree-kee-die, shee-kee-ree-a-dam-da
Forever and ever
Go, go, go, wild dancers
Die-na, die-na, wanna be loved
Die-na, gonna take my wild chances
Die-na, die-na, freedom above
Die-na, die-na-day, I'm wild dancin'
Hey
Напевно, даремно
Була я надто чемна
Hey, shee-kee-die, shee-ree-kee-dam-day
Shee-ree-kee-die, shee-kee-ree-a-dam-da
Для тебе, для себе
Застелю ц_ле небо
Hey, dam-day
Shee-ree-kee-die, shee-kee-ree-a-dam-da
Без жалю запалю
Go, go, go, wild dancers
Die-na, die-na, wanna be loved
Die-na, gonna take my wild chances
Die-na, die-na, freedom above
Die-na, die-na-day, I'm wild dancin'
Hey-ey-ey...
Dance forever, come and be mine
Dance together, till the end of time
Dance together
Go, go, go, wild dancers
Die-na, die-na, wanna be loved
Die-na, gonna take my wild chances
Die-na, die-na, freedom above
Die-na, die-na-day, I'm wild dancin'
Hey, hey
Исполнитель: Руслана Лижичко
Музыка: Руслана Лижичко
Слова: Руслана Лижичко / Александр Ксенофонтов
One asked whether a certain man was wise or not.
It was answered that he was otherwise.
Disappointed
Little Mary ran into the house very much excited.
"Oh, mother," she cried, "don't be angry with me for being late to tea, for I've had such a disappointment. A
horse fell down and they said they were going to send for a horse doctor; so, of course, I had to stay. And after I had waited and waited, he came, and oh, mother, what do you think? It wasn't a horse doctor at all. It was only a man!
a horse doctor - 1. ветеринарный врач; 2. конь-врач (в представлении девочки)
at all - совсем