#the tolmachevy sisters

[randompizzadeliveryguy]

It's a minor case but something that annoys me about the whole EBU silencing the protest during Israels performance is as far as I can remember that one year the crowd was booing those Russians twins (tolmachevy sisters in 2014 I think) and that wasn't cut out of the Livestream. So Russia was allowed to be publicly boo'd and got ultimately banned from the competition but Israel gets to perform anyway and gets special treatment on top of that.

Huh

(Repost because I wanted to make sure its clear that Russia being excluded from ESC is 100% justified and the same should go for Israel but as I said special treatment at its finest)

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #437:

Manizha's 'Russian Woman,' which represented Russia in 2021, was the first Russian entry in 12 years to feature lyrics in Russian. 2009's 'Mamo' by Anastasia Prikhodko was the previous song to feature Russian.

It should be noted that the 2012 representatives Buranovskiye Babushki's song 'Party for Everybody' did not exclusively feature English lyrics, but it did not use Russian as the other featured language. It used Udmurt, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet and is spoken within Russia, but is its own distinct language.

[Sources]

Participants of Rotterdam 2021: Manizha, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Rotterdam 2020: Little Big, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Tel Aviv 2019: Sergey Lazarev, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Lisbon 2018: Julia Samoylova, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Stockholm 2016: Sergey Lazarev, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Vienna 2015: Polina Gagarina, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Copenhagen 2014: Tolmachevy Sisters, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Malmö 2013: Dina Garipova, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Baku 2012: Buranovskiye Babushki, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Düsseldorf 2011: Alexej Vorobjov, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Oslo 2010: Peter Nalitch & Friends, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Moscow 2009: Anastasia Prikhodko, Eurovision.tv.

[sonicwolf93]

My top 5 of Eurovision 2014

Maybe (San Marino) - It may not win Eurovision so easily, but it easily conquered my heart with this song. I listened to it before watching Eurovision and this song is so beautiful! Valentina is such an icon for San Marino as well. Her voice is so pretty, the melody may be simple but beautiful, i just really love this song and wonder how things will turn out when San Marino wins Eurovision one day.

Rise Like A Phoenix (Austria) - A great winner, honestly. Took me a while to truly love it until i started repeating the build-up to the chorus. It's beautiful. Conchita is beautiful and their voice is impressive as hell. No wonder they became such an iconic winner in Eurovision. The instrumental is also really good.

Undo (Sweden) - I heard this song before and the moment i found out it was an Eurovision song really surprised me. Sanna's voice is really good and the song gets kinda catchy after a while. It's only not any higher because the others mentioned are far better than this, but the nostalgia just brings back the memories of when i loved this song.

Shine (Russia) - A great song. That's all i can say. The Tolmachevy Sisters were so creative and talented and they were only 17 around the time. The performance was great, the song is kinda catchy, it was just pure amazingness. Probably one of the best russian entries alongside the 2015 and 2021 ones.

Tick Tock (Ukraine) - Amongst the many options i had, such as Ireland, Italy or Switzerland, Ukraine takes the spot. It reminds me a lot of Shady Lady from 2008. It's not as catchy as Shady Lady, but it's not bad either. It's not exactly the best, but there was some effort put into it. Mariya had so much charisma and the performance was odd, but slightly captivating.

Honorable Mentions: Portugal, The Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, Belarus, Poland, Latvia, Slovenia, Finland, North Macedonia, Moldova, Denmark and Montenegro. (Not a bad edition, just really hard to rank.)

[gaymer-hag-stan]

Yeah, about the "Eurovision banned Russia immediately" line, this is extremely not true.

They literally introduced anti-booing technology in 2015 because in 2014 the Tolmachevy Sisters (Russia's act for that year) got booed to hell and back (possibly because of Crimea, possibly because of Putin's anti-LGBT law, possibly both). They specifically introduced that element EXCLUSIVELY for Russia, because they had no issue with the crowd booing every time the Greek and Cypriot juries exchanged high points. They are most likely gonna use the same technology for Eden Golan's performance this year.

When the Ukrainian broadcaster protested Russia's participation in 2022, the EBU most certainly did not "ban them immediately" and they said they were allowed to participate just fine.

It was only after six other broadcasters (I think it was Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia, Sweden and someone else?) that they banned them. They gave the fact that the russian broadcaster was spreading misinformation and propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine as the official excuse but this is clearly either not their actual motive or they cherry pick when that's an issue because they now INSIST that the Israeli broadcaster is not doing the exact same thing the Russian one did. They claim that the Israeli broadcaster is not like the Russian or Belarusian one and is not directly being manipulated by the Israeli government so it therefore doesn't breach their rules.

So no, the EBU most certainly did not ban Russia immediately, they didn't do it because of the annexation of Crimea or the full-scale invasion of Ukraine (or Georgia, for that matter, they were even allowed to host in 2009 and Georgia was forced out because of their song that year) they only did it because six other broadcasters threatened to leave and take their money with them, something the same or other broadcasters, unfortunately, refused to do this time.

also isn’t the eurovision song sung by israel literally also sung by a russian permanent resident??? and in 2015 eurovision let a known proxy of putin perform a song about peace and holding hands for russia???

Yep and yeah. Russia also tried to send a girl who supported the occupation of Crimea to the Eurovision 2017 held in Ukraine - right next year after Jamala won the contest with the song 1944 about the deportation of Crimean Tatars.

And we were getting so much shit for not allowing that girl entry into Ukraine because she broke the law.

So yeah, Eurovision is a big bag of dicks, I'm certainly not telling anyone to watch, much more to support Israel entry this year. But god, these "Eurovision banned russia immediately" when it's not only not the case, it shows how little people know or care about Ukraine unless it's for making it a rhetorical device.

[escinsight]

Reflections Of Russia and Ukraine At The Eurovision Song Contest

To illustrate the impact of the conflict on the Eurovision Song Contest, let’s go back to a time when there was relative calm in both Russia and Ukraine. Malmö 2013 Malmö 2013 was a great year for both countries as Zlata Ognevich managed third place with ‘Gravity’ and Dina Garipova managed fifth place with ‘What If’.  If we look at the voting between the two countries 2013, Ukraine awarded 4…

[chanandlerbong]

Special 20 years watching Eurovision; Favourite acts → 2014   

[nonnyfcknawesome93]

ESC 120 Songs!

#49 Tolmachevy Sisters "Shine" Russia 2014

 Peformance 5/5 Lyrics 3.5/5 Voice 4/5 -Twin sisters! Singing in a seesaw! United by their hair! Mirror moving! -Original staging 

https://youtu.be/BCNN1JAgWqk

#48 #AlexanderRybak "Fairytale" Norway 2009

 Performance 5/5 Lyrics 4/5 Voice 5/5 -Violin king -Back up dancers -Catchy -Record number of points at the time

  https://youtu.be/WXwgZL4zx9o

#47 Ann Sophie "Black Smoke" Germany 2015 

Performance 4/5 Lyrics 4/5 Voice 4.5/5 -Original song -What a staging! -Nice vocals -She deserved better than nil points

  https://youtu.be/DGMJOchTRPc

#46 #DomenicoModungo "Nel blu dipinto di blu (#Volare)" Italy 1958 

Perf. 5/5 Lyrics 5/5 Voice 5/5 -ICONIC. Everybody has heard it -This song has become synonym with Italy -He came in 3rd -He won in Viña del Mar -Its in your head now

  https://youtu.be/Z-DVi0ugelc

#45 #Jalisse "Fiumi di parole" Italy 1997 

Performance 4.5/5 Lyrics 5/5 Voice 5/5 -What a masterpiece -Excelent voice -Power ballad -Nice chemistry -It's stuck in my head every time

https://youtu.be/S24gn5Y6wB0

[littlesistersti]

Famous wall from Dream Team choreographer and stage director (I think?) Fokas Evagelinos.

Other known works included the giant stapler, the glass box with rose petals, giant seesaw, and the box house thing with a giant puppet. Maybe also the green screen. This video is up to date 2019. Can't figure out the guy with people strapped onto walls and moving them like magic tricks.

Ani Lorak was a person who started all this shit with wall on the stage

[eurovisionopinions]

[revel-wallpapers]

Sisters Tolmachev Anya Nastya Tolmachevi Sisters Singers Russia Eurovision 2014(1680x1050)

[ickaimp]

Russia and Ukraine in Eurovision

A friend knows I love Eurovision and let me know that Eurovision has banned Russia from Eurovision 2022. And I immediatly flailed and info dumped, because hyperfixations.

2014 was the first time I got to see a live streaming Eurovision finale and it was as Russia invaded Ukraine. The 2014 Ukraine entry, “Tick-Tock” by Mariya Yaremchuk, has lots of visual about being trapped and literally running out of time. Which may not have been the intention, but contrast it with the 2014 Russian entry: “Shine” by the Tolmachevy Sisters, which… Has some very 1920s Metropolis propaganda vibes, and the lyrics include: Now maybe there's a place Maybe there's a time Maybe there's a day you'll be mine And this is while Russia is invading the Ukraine. 😬 Very yikes. This sets the tone for rooting for Russia in Eurovision. (nope) 2015, Ukraine didn’t participate in Eurovision, they were dealing with an invasion. Russia almost won, the Eurovision live audience was very vocally FURIOUS, as were the commentators. Thankfully Måns Zelmerlöw from Sweden wins with “Heroes”. In 2016 Måns performed the greatest Eurovision song that isn’t in Eurovison, “Love Love Peace Peace“ where the 2014 Ukraine entry makes an appearance onstage as “Man in a Hampster Wheel”. 😄🐹 Eurovision also changed its judging in 2016. They seperated the judge votes from the audience televoting, which makes the final score less obvious and more of a nail biter. (2021 was fantastic!) 2016 was also kind of interesting as it’s very obvious how much money Russia puts into their entries in “You Are The Only One” by Sergey Lazarev. It’s one of the more technically complex visual entries. Taking a cue from Måns, there’s fancy interactive backgrounds, and the guy walks upright up a wall, no wires invovled. Russia also tried to get Ukraine’s entry, 1944 by Jamala, removed by claiming that it was poltical, talking about the 2014 invasion. Eurovision rules state “no lyrics, speeches, gestures of political or similar nature shall be permitted“.

This was rejected as the song is about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars at the hands of Joseph Stalin, which included Jamala’s Great-Grandmother and her daughters, one of whom didn’t make it.  The lyrics, in both english and crimean, are very emotional and worth a read. Ukraine wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. 2017, Ukraine hosts Eurovision. And Russia isn’t in it. 😂 Russia has a song, “Flame is Burning”, they have a singer, Yuliya Samoylova, and the singer is banned from entering Ukraine for breaking Ukrainian travel ban in 2015. 2018... does not go well for Russia in Portugal. Yuliya Samoylova performs a new song, “I won’t Break” and it scores at the bottom of the second semi-finals. Russia fails to make it to the finals for the first time since 1997. Ukraine places 17th. The past couple of years have been kind of quiet. Russia’s 2020 entry, “Uno” by Little Big went semi-viral (personally, I think “Hypnodance” is funnier) and Ukraine’s 2021 entry, “Shum” by Go_A, placed fifth and exploded on tik-tok. And now Russia’s banned from 2022. 😂 It’ll be interesting to see how Eurovision goes down in Turin, Italy this year.

[juuret]

In hindsight booing the Tolmachevy sisters was the right thing to do.

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #342:

In total, there have been 11 sets of twins at Eurovision.

The first pair to appear was the Kessler twins, who represented Germany in 1959. The Kesslers finished 8th overall.

Next, Luxembourg was represented by Sophie and Magaly Gilles in 1980. The sisters finished 9th overall.

In 2004, the Turkish entry, Athena, was comprised of twin brothers Hakan and Gökhan Özoğuz. The pair finished 4th in the Grand Final, the best result by any set of twins at Eurovision.

North Macedonia's 2009 entry, rock band Next Time, also consisted of twin brothers. Martin and Stefan Filipovski unfortunately did not make it to the Grand Final, placing 10th in the First Semi-Final.

The following year, the Belarusian group 3+2 brought twin sisters Alena and Ninel Karpovich, the "2" in 3+2, to the Eurovision stage. The group finished 24th in the Grand Final.

2011 saw two sets of twins: John and Edward Grimes representing Ireland as Jedward, and sisters Daniela and Veronika represtned Slovakia as TWiiNS. Jedward finished 8th in the Grand Final, but TWiiNS only placed 13th in the Second Semi-Final.

The following year, Jedward returned to represent Ireland, but only managed to place 19th in the Grand Final.

In 2014 there was once again two sets of twins: France was represented by the group TWIN TWIN, which consisted of Eurovision's first fraternal twins, Lorent and François Ardouvin, and their friend Patrick. The group finished last, 26th, at the Grand Final. On the other hand, Russia was represented by the Tolmachevy Sisters, Anastasia and Maria. The duo also won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. At Copenhagen, they managed to place 7th in the Grand Final.

In 2017, the group OG3NE, representing the Netherlands, consisted of three sisters, two of which were fraternal twins: Amy and Shelley. The two are a year younger than their sister Lisa. The group placed 11th at the Grand Final.

Finally, for this year's contest (2023), Azerbaijan will be represented by TuralTuranX.

[Sources]

Eurovision Twins, MyHeritage.com.

Eurovision Fact #337.

Eurovision Fact #341.

Sets of Twins Who Have Competed At The Eurovision Song Contest, YouTube.com.

Participants of Cannes 1959: Alice and Ellen Kessler, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of The Hague 1980: Sophie and Magaly, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Istanbul 2004: Athena, Eurovision.tv.

Athena (band), Wikipedia.org.

Participants of Moscow 2009: Next Time, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Oslo 2010: 3+2, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Düsseldorf 2011: Jedward, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Düsseldorf 2011: TWiiNS, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Baku 2012: Jedward, Eurovision.tv.

'Twin Twin Interview: François, Lorent and Patrick are single!,' Wiwibloggs.com.

Participants of Copenhagen 2014: TWIN TWIN, Eurovision.tv.

Copenhagen 2014 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Copenhagen 2014: Tolmachey Sisters, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Kyiv 2017: OG3NE, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Liverpool 2023: TuralTuranX, Eurovision.tv.

[mysticmarsh]

on a scale from jedward to tolmachevy sisters how coordinated are you and your twin

[qqueenofhades]

Modern AU Heartrender Husbands gives me the vibes of like they'll watch eurovision bc Fedyor wanted to and Ivan only begrudgingly agreed but in the end it's him who's standing really close to the TV with a bottle of beer loudly criticising the jury vote

Anon, your Mind. As 100% ever, I am so very easy to enable. As before, this is set in Phantom!Verse, and serves as a sequel of sorts to this (and as a further prequel to PEL).

Brighton Beach, 2014

It’s their first spring in their new home – they arrived in America in August 2013 and got this place, fittingly, right around Orthodox Christmas in January 2014 – and that means many things to them. Their apartment is in a formerly rent-controlled brownstone tenement right off the boardwalk, but prior to their arrival, it was occupied for fifty years by an old bat from Krasnodar Krai who apparently never, ever, threw anything away. (Fedyor is too scared to ask if she actually died in this apartment and her mummified corpse is lurking at the bottom of all the junk.) That is why he and Ivan were able to afford it, at least, but now that the weather is warmer, they have been spending all day cleaning, hauling boxes of crap to the dumpster, and trying in vain to get the smell of pickled cabbage out of the kitchen. It looks exactly like your Great Aunt Masha’s house, the one that traumatized you as a child and has never left your nightmares since. Home sweet home.

The upside is that the location is great, the apartment is surprisingly spacious and lovely – a big bedroom, a bathroom with two sinks and a deep claw-footed tub, a living room with high windows that let in lots of light, original crown molding and hardwood floors – and if it was located in the really chic parts of Brooklyn and inhabited by a tech-startup hipster rather than a Russian émigré spinster with definite hoarding tendencies, it would rent for some astronomical monthly sum. Fedyor has a three-ring binder full of paint swatches, sketches, furniture samples, and other plans to give it a total overhaul (he’s thinking a nice pale green for the living room?) But the one thing that spring definitely means is Eurovision, and it is just the ticket to relax from their grueling schedule of throwing boxes of junk away and hoping they don’t stumble upon a withered hand in a glass jar. He likes America and he’s excited for their new life, for all that they had no choice but to leave Russia in a hurry, but Eurovision is Eurovision.

Actually watching it, of course, is easier said than done. For one thing, Fedyor can’t find a blasted station that is airing it, when he could have just switched on the TV and found it right away back home. For another, Ivan is deeply dubious of the whole endeavor, having watched five minutes of it once when he was eighteen and turning it off in disgust, never to return. Fedyor spends a lot of time wheedling him to give it another chance. “Come on, Vanya. It’s fun!”

“It is a lot of homosexuals gyrating in leather to very bad music,” Ivan snaps. “They look ridiculous. And sound even worse.”

Fedyor glances at them – the fact that they’re sitting on the couch, he’s on Ivan’s lap with his legs draped over Ivan’s thigh, and Ivan’s arms wrapped around his waist – and coughs. “I’m not sure how to break this to you, darling,” he says, “but you are also a homosexual.”

“Maybe, but you would never catch me dead up there.”

“Of course not.” Fedyor rolls his eyes. “You might actually have to smile.”

Ivan makes a scoffing noise. Then he notices the full-on puppy-dog face that Fedyor is now giving him, and says, “Oh no. Oh no, Fedya. Do not look at me like that.”

“Why not?” Fedyor shamelessly snuggles closer. “Is it working?”

The predictable outcome is that Ivan grudgingly agrees to watch it with him, though they’re on American time now and Eurovision Song Contest 2014, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, is six hours ahead of them. Ivan thinks that it’s stupid to sit down and watch a lot of gyrating homosexuals in the middle of the day, when there’s still so much work to do, and tries to demand that they just watch the recording later. Fedyor says this is nonsense, you simply cannot watch a recording of Eurovision, and after a lot of investigation, finds the online streaming channel on his laptop and hooks it up to the TV so they can watch it there. Then he prepares his popcorn, his alcoholic beverages, and his glitter glasses, corrals his recalcitrant husband, and readies himself to experience pure joy. No wonder Ivan doesn’t get it.

However, the effect is both swift and remarkable. By the end of the first semi-final, Ivan is put out about the fact that Russia came seventh in the popular vote but was knocked down to eleven by the jury (this is evidence of an anti-Russian conspiracy, according to him) and when only Moldova, a tiny no-name non-EU former Soviet state, deigns to award them the full twelve points, he is openly incredulous. “Moldova?! That is all we get?! MOLDOVA?!”

“Well,” Fedyor says delicately. “There is that little situation in Ukraine, so I’m afraid we are not that popular right now.”

“That is bullshit,” Ivan grouses. “This is a song contest. The Tolmachevy Sisters are not Vladimir Putin. I am sure they have worked very hard to be here.”

Fedyor glances at him and wisely decides not to say anything. He is likewise a little peeved when the Russian contestants get booed by the Danish audience, but Ivan looks like he’s about to leap through the screen and throttle every single one of them. He thrusts out a hand. “Give me a drink, Fedya. I need it to suffer this indignity.”

Fedyor cracks the lid off a cold one and hands it over – there is the Brighton Bazaar just a few blocks away, stocked with Russian goods, so they are spared the ordeal of drinking Yankee beer – and Ivan takes a long slug. He thinks they can skip watching the second semi-final two nights later, since Russia isn’t in it, but Fedyor puts it on anyway. They both like Austria and “Rise Like a Phoenix,” sung by the bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst (there have been a few dumb comments about her from the usual suspects), but Ivan hits a fist on the arm of the sofa. “She was not better than the Russian girls,” he says loyally. “I still think that they should be the ones to win.”

“Right, well,” Fedyor says. “I think the only ones less likely to win are the Brits, and they never win, so we might be waiting a while.”

The grand finale, on May tenth, is an inadvertently hysterical exercise. They get up early and put on the pregame show, like the Americans do with their bewildering fixation on the Super Bowl, and Ivan gets even more furious when the Tolmachevy Sisters are booed again. “Are they not supposed to love everyone at this glitter bacchanalia? So much for the Scandinavians being tolerant and accepting people! The song is nice! They are nice girls! What is wrong with them?!”

“Come over here and give me a cuddle, Vanya,” Fedyor suggests. “Otherwise you will blow a blood vessel long before the show starts.”

Ivan growls like an escaped tiger from the zoo, but consents to sit down next to Fedyor. They both drink copiously once the festivities get underway, singing along loudly (and not that melodiously) to the various entries, Fedyor’s arm draped around Ivan’s neck as he sits on his lap and critically judges the acts before the official results pop up. Once again, the only twelve-point awards Russia gets are from former Soviet countries (Azerbaijan and Belarus) and Ivan looks like he’s going to have a conniption before Fedyor kisses him and he gets distracted for the next three minutes. “This is disgraceful,” he mutters, when they break away. “Not you, Fedya. Just the horrible way they have clearly rigged this show against us.”

“You know,” Fedyor says. “That’s Eurovision. You declare war on your neighbors when they don’t give you twelve points. Now they have the EU, they’re not supposed to fight anymore, this is the only way they can get all those old rivalries out. Just be glad that Australia isn’t in this year. You might have really blown a gasket.”

“Australia?!” Ivan shifts Fedyor to a more comfortable position on his lap and grabs for his third bottle of beer. “AUSTRALIA IS NOT IN EUROPE! It is not even anywhere NEAR Europe! WHY DOES AUSTRALIA GET TO BE IN EUROVISION!?!”

Fedyor laughs out loud. “I love you so much.”

“I love you too,” Ivan says. “But this is still the stupidest thing I have ever seen.”

“Shh.” Fedyor nuzzles him. “Just give in, Vanya. Just give in.”

Ivan consents to turn his grumbling down to a simmer, and is somewhat mollified that Russia comes in sixth overall, which is better than even Fedyor thought they were going to do. Austria takes the champion’s crown, they can both agree that Conchita Wurst deserves it, and get up and dance around their still-junk-cluttered living room as she gives her bravissima performance. A few things have been thrown during the judging, but they can’t add much to the existing mess, and in Brighton Beach, “damage caused to the apartment because Russia got shafted during Eurovision finals” might actually be a legitimate excuse. As he leans against Ivan’s chest and grins into his neck, Fedyor has to admit that this place may just feel like home yet.

[eurovisionsongaday]

Hey, here’s a couple of grads from the Junior Eurovision!