"Nobody Hurt No One" was the entry in the

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, performed in

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by Belarusian singer

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. It was written by Victor Drobysh, Jussi-Pekka Järvinen,

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, and produced by Victor Drobysh and Iosif Prigozhin. The song won Russia's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. As Russia had finished the

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in the top 12, the song was pre-qualified for the final, held in

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, Ukraine. On the night, the song was performed 20th, following 's

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with "

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" and preceding 's

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with " Call Me". At the close of voting, it had received 57 points, placing 15th in a field of 24. The song was succeeded as Russian representative by

Dima Bilan Dima Nikolayevich Bilan (russian: Ди́ма Никола́евич Била́н; born Viktor Nikolayevich Belan, russian: Ви́ктор Никола́евич Бела́н, links=no; 24 December 1981) is a Russian singer, songwriter and acto ...

with " Never Let You Go".

Background

On September 1, 2004, a group of armed

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, mostly Ingush and Chechen, occupied School Number One (SNO) in the town of

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(an

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in the

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region of the

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). The siege lasted three days and involved the illegal imprisonment of over 1,100 people as hostages (including 777 children). The hostage-takes demanded recognition of the independence of Chechnya at the UN and withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. On the third day of the standoff, Russian security forces stormed the school building with the use of

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s, incendiary rockets and other heavy weapons. As of December 2006, 334 people (excluding terrorists) were killed, including 186 children. Few months later, "Nobody Hurt No One" was announced as one of the 30 participants of the Russian national selection. On February 25, 2005, this song was selected as a winner of Russia's national selection for Eurovision.

Music video

Igor Burloff directed the music video for the song. It was filmed in the late days of April 2005 in

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inside

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. The shooting of the video involved more than 500 people.

Track listing

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Charts

References

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