Andranik Aleksanyan will represent host country Ukraine at the 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The 11-year old won the national competition with the song Try Topoli, Try Surmy.

It is still over five months before the 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Kyiv, Ukraine, yet the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Steering Group of the event already picked the destination for the 2010 running of the contest! The bid to host the 8th Junior Eurovision Song Contest was won by Belarusian broadcaster BTRC, which will host the competition at the brand new Minsk Arena in the country's capital.

Young talents between 10 and 15 years old from 13 countries will gather in Kyiv, Ukraine, this November to take part in the 7th running of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announces today. The live show, hosted by national public broadcaster NTU, is set to take place on Saturday, 21st of November, and will be broadcast live on television across Europe and on the internet via www.junioreurovision.tv.

The 11-year old Ekaterina Ryabova will represent Russia at the 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine. She will sing Malenkiy Prints, which means The Little Prince.

What a year! 2008, the year of Dima Bilan's Eurovision Song Contest victory, Georgia's win at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and Poland's success at the second ever Eurovision Dance Contest, is about to go into the history books. And 2009 - surprise! - will start with a brand new version of the world-famous Eurovision tune!

Televoters and juries from 15 countries all over Europe have decided: Georgia won this year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest! Congratulations!!

This was our live blog from Cyprus. We hope you enjoyed the show! All night long we blogged from the Spyros Kyprianou Arena in Lemesos, Cyprus!

Over the past days we had fun in the sun, but tonight is the BIG NIGHT! Our young stars from 15 countries can't wait to go on stage and show you what they have been preparing for over the past weeks and months! Watch with us tonight!

Today was and tomorrow is the last chance our young singers can still try out the stage before the big night tomorrow at 20:15 CET!

The audience is entering the arena, technicians test their equipment and dozens of children are walking around backstage in their most colorful costumes. It is almost as if the live show will take place tonight! But no, this is the second dress rehearsal!