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Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest

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Summary

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Field	Value
Name	Belarus
Contest	ESC
Former broadcaster	Belarusian Television and Radio Company (BTRC; 2004–2021)
Apps	16 (6 finals)
First
Last
Highest	6th:
Current	2019

Belarus was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 16 times, making its debut in and having its last appearance in . The Belarusian participating broadcaster in the contest was the Belarusian Television and Radio Company (BTRC). Since 1 July 2021, Belarus has been unable to participate in the contest following the suspension of BTRC's membership in the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The country's first appearance in a final was in , with the song "Work Your Magic" performed by Dmitry Koldun, where it placed sixth; this remains Belarus' only top ten placement. Belarus also qualified for the final in , , , , and . More recently, the nation had planned to take part in the cancelled contest and was disqualified from taking part in the contest.

History

The Belarusian Television and Radio Company (BTRC) was a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1 January 1993, thus eligible to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest since then. It participated in the contest representing Belarus since its in 2004.

Belarus entered the contest in the same year that semi-finals began to be used to determine who would compete in the final. Belarus has qualified for the final six times: in with "Work Your Magic", in with "Butterflies", in with "Solayoh", in with "Cheesecake", in with "Story of My Life", and in with "Like It".

Alexander Rybak, the winner of the contest representing , expressed an interest in composing an entry for his birth country Belarus. Rybak's song "Accent", performed by Milki, competed in the Belarusian national final for the contest, placing fourth.

Belarus originally planned to participate in the contest, and were set to perform in the first half of the first semi-final. On 9 March 2021, Galasy ZMesta was announced as the chosen entrant with the song "Ya nauchu tebya (I'll Teach You)". However, the entry was disqualified on 11 March, as it was decided by the EBU that the song was in violation of the contest's rules. Belarusian broadcaster BTRC was ordered to submit either a new version of the song or an entirely new song that is compliant with the rules, or face disqualification. On 26 March, BTRC submitted the song "Pesnya pro zaytsev (Song about hares)" (), also sung by Galasy ZMesta, as Belarus' new entry, however that song was also disqualified, again for the same reasons as their previous attempt, and Belarus was subsequently disqualified from the 2021 contest altogether.

On 28 May 2021, six days after the 2021 final, the EBU voted to suspend BTRC's membership. BTRC was given two weeks to respond before the suspension came into effect on 11 June, but there was no public response. The broadcaster was expelled from the EBU on 1 July, therefore losing the rights to broadcast and participate in the contest. It was subsequently stated that the expulsion would last for three years, however, in late April 2024 (one month before the expiration), the EBU declared that there was "no reason to change position at the current time", thus making the suspension indefinite.

Participation overview

X	Entry selected but did not compete	†	Upcoming event--

Year	Artist	Song	Language	Final	Points	Semi
Aleksandra and Konstantin	"My Galileo"	English	Failed to qualify}}	19	10
Angelica Agurbash	"Love Me Tonight"	English	13	67
Polina Smolova	"Mum"	English	22	10
Koldun	"Work Your Magic"	English	6	145	4	176
Ruslan Alehno	"Hasta la vista"	English	Failed to qualify}}	17	27
Petr Elfimov	"Eyes That Never Lie"	English	13	25
3+2 Robert Wells	"Butterflies"	English	24	18	9	59
Anastasia Vinnikova	"I Love Belarus"	English	Failed to qualify}}	14	45
Litesound	"We Are the Heroes"	English	16	35
Alyona Lanskaya	"Solayoh"	English	16	48	7	64
Teo	"Cheesecake"	English	16	43	5	87
Uzari and Maimuna	"Time"	English	Failed to qualify}}	12	39
Ivan	"Help You Fly"	English	12	84
Naviband	"Story of My Life"	Belarusian	17	83	9	110
Alekseev	"Forever"	English	Failed to qualify}}	16	65
Zena	"Like It"	English	24	31	10	122
VAL	"Da vidna" (Да відна)	Belarusian	Contest cancelled}} X
Galasy ZMesta	Entries disqualified	Russian	Disqualified}} X

Related involvement

Heads of delegation

Each participating broadcaster in the Eurovision Song Contest assigns a head of delegation as the EBU's contact person and the leader of their delegation at the event. The delegation, whose size can greatly vary, includes a head of press, the performers, songwriters, composers, and backing vocalists, among others.

Year	Head of delegation	Ref.	–	–	–
Alexander Martynenko
Marat Markov
Olga Salamakha

Commentators and spokespersons

Year	Channel	Commentator
		Did not participate}}
Belarus-1	Ales Kruglyakov, Tatyana Yakusheva
	Ales Kruglyakov and	Denis Kurian
Belarus-1	Ales Kruglyakov	Elena Ponomareva
Unknown}}	Denis Dudinskiy	Corrianna
Denis Kurian, Alexander Tikhanovich	Juliana
Belarus-1, Belarus-TV	Denis Kurian	Olga Barabanschikova
Belarus-1	Denis Kurian, Alexander Tikhanovich	Ekaterina Litvinova
Denis Kurian	Aleksei Grishin
Leila Ismailava
Dmitry Koldun
Belarus-1, Belarus 24	Evgeny Perlin	Darya Domracheva
Alyona Lanskaya
Teo
Uzari
Alyona Lanskaya
Naviband
Maria Vasilevich
Belarus-1, Belarus 24	Evgeny Perlin
Suspended from broadcasting}}

Other shows

Show	Commentator	Channel	Ref.	Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light
Evgeny Perlin	Belarus 1, Belarus 24

Photo gallery

File:Kolduneurovision2007.jpg|Dmitry Koldun in Helsinki () File:Ruslan Alekhno, Belarus, Eurovision 2008.jpg|Ruslan Alekhno in Belgrade () File:3+2 band 01.JPG| 3+2 in Oslo () File:Litesound Eurovision.jpg|Litesound in Baku () File:ESC2013 - Belarus 15.jpg|Alyona Lanskaya in Malmö () File:ESC2014 - Belarus 01.jpg|Teo in Copenhagen () File:20150515 ESC 2015 Uzari & Maimuna 7730.jpg|Uzari and Maimuna in Vienna () File:ESC2016 - Belarus 07.jpg|Ivan in Stockholm () File:Eurovision Song Contest 2017, Semi Final 2 Rehearsals. Photo 260.jpg|Naviband in Kyiv () File:ESC2018 - Belarus 01.jpg|Alekseev in Lisbon () File:Eurovision 2019 Belarus.jpg|Zena in Tel Aviv ()

Notes

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