The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the seventh edition of the annual

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and took place in

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. It was scheduled for 21 November 2009. 13 countries were confirmed by the

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(EBU) to compete in the contest. The contest was won by

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for the

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with the song "

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". At the age of 14, he was the oldest person to win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in its seven-year history. He was joined by Italy's

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who won the 2014 contest also at the age of 14.

Luara Hayrapetyan Luara Gurgenovna Hayrapetyan ( hy, Լուարա Գուրգենի Հայրապետյան, russian: link=no, Луара Гургеновна Айрапетян; born 29 September 1997 in Astrakhan, Russia) is an Armenian-Russian singer. She re ...

achieved

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another second place. Ekaterina Ryabova also took second place for

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. Both Prime Minister

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were present during the final; Tymoshenko was also present and speeched during the opening ceremony on 16 November 2009.

Location

Bidding phase and host selection

The

(EBU) invited broadcasters to bid for the rights to host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009; three bids were received from Belarus, Serbia, and Ukraine.

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of Sweden had originally sent in a bid during summer 2007, but soon withdrew its bid after deciding to completely withdraw from the contest. On 6 June 2008, after deliberations by the EBU, the

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(NTU) was granted the rights to the 2009 contest and confirmed they would host it in

. Ukraine also hosted the

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at the same venue. On 12 November 2009, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister

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declared that the contest would not be postponed; (earlier)

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Hanna Herman Hanna Mykolaivna Herman ( uk, Га́нна Микола́ївна Ге́рман) (born 24 April 1959; Lviv region,

had called on

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Format

Concept and logo

Logo of the contest titled "

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" is based on the artwork "Sunflower of life" by Maria Primachenko, a well known Ukrainian folk art painter. Creative design of the show was based on the logo of the contest, works and ideas of Primachenko as well as on the concept of the show, titled "For the joy of people".

Presenters

On 22 October 2009, it was revealed that

Ani Lorak Karolina Myroslavivna Kuiek, russian: Каролина Мирославовна Куек (born 27 September 1978), popularly known as Ani Lorak,, russian: Ани Лорак is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur and former UN ...

Timur Miroshnychenko Timur Valeriyovych Miroshnychenko ( Ukrainian: Тімур Валерійович Мірошниченко) (born 9 March 1986) is a Ukrainian TV presenter for the channel UA:PBC. He was the host of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 toget ...

and Dmytro Borodin would be hosting the contest, with Borodin serving as the green room host.

Opening and interval acts

The show was opened by the children's ballet A6 and the Jazz-Step Dance Class of Volodymyr Shpudeyko; they were followed by the children's sports dancing ensemble Pulse. Young acrobats Karyn Rudnycka and Yuriy Kuzynsky accompanied all participating contestants on stage, whilst

performed during the interval.

Participants and results

The EBU announced the complete list of participating countries in the 2009 contest on 8 June 2009. 13 countries competed in the contest. Sweden returned after missing the previous year's contest, while , and withdrew from the contest. According to the rules of the contest, participants must sing in one of their national languages, however they are permitted to have up to 25% of the song in a different language.

Detailed voting results

Each country decided their votes through a 50% jury and 50% televoting system which decided their top ten songs using the points 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Since Sweden did not broadcast the show until the morning after, their points were made up solely by their national jury.

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received. All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting to ensure that no country finished with

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Spokespersons

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Nevena Božović Nevena Ivanović (; sr-cyr, Невена Ивановић, ; , ; born 15 June 1994) is a Serbian singer and songwriter. She made her singing debut by representing Serbia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with song "Piši mi", placing ...

# Ana Davitaia # # Yiorgos Ioannides #

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# Marietta # # Arina Aleshkevich # Jovana Krstevska

Broadcasts

A live broadcast of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was available worldwide via satellite through European streams such as

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and MKTV Sat. The official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website also provided a live stream without commentary via the

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medium Octoshape.

Official album

''Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009: Kyiv – Ukraine'', is a compilation album put together by the European Broadcasting Union, and was released by

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on 21 November 2009. The album features all the songs from the 2009 contest, along with karaoke versions.

References

External links

* {{Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009

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