Slavic Vision Song Contest 6

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**Participation map**
* Confirmed countries that have selected their song and/or performer     Confirmed countries     Countries that participated in the past but not this edition
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**Slavic Vision Song Contest 6**, often referred to as **SVSC 6**, will be the fourth edition of the Slavic Vision Song Contest. The contest will be hosted in Slovakia, after Celeste Buckingham won the fifth edition of the contest with "My Last Song".

22 countries participated in the sixth edition. In order to participate, the countries had to be firstly approved to be members of the Slavic Broadcasting Union.

TBA was crowned as the winner of the edition with the song "TBA" performed by TBA. The song gathered a total of TBA points, TBA points ahead the runner-up, TBA. TBA finished on third place, while TBA, TBA and TBA completed the top 6 of the edition.

## Location

*For further information see Košice***Košice** is the biggest city in eastern Slovakia and in 2013 was the European Capital of Culture. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 240,000, Košice is the second largest city in Slovakia after the capital Bratislava.

Being the economic and cultural centre of eastern Slovakia, Košice is the seat of the Košice Region and Košice Self-governing Region, the Slovak Constitutional Court, three universities, various dioceses, and many museums, galleries, and theatres. Košice is an important industrial centre of Slovakia, and the U.S. Steel Košice steel mill is the largest employer in the city. The town has extensive railway connections and an international airport.
The city has a well-preserved historical centre, which is the largest among Slovak towns. There are many heritage protected buildings in Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Art Nouveau styles with Slovakia's largest church: the St. Elisabeth Cathedral. The long main street, rimmed with aristocratic palaces, Catholic churches, and townsfolk's houses, is a thriving pedestrian zone with many boutiques, cafés, and restaurants. The city is well known as the first settlement in Europe to be granted its own coat-of-arms

In 2008 Košice won the competition among Slovakian cities to hold the prestigious title European Capital of Culture 2013. Project Interface aims at transformation of Košice from a centre of heavy industry to a postindustrial city with creative potential and new cultural infrastructure. Project authors bring to Košice a concept of creative economy – merging of economy and industry with arts, where transformed urban space encourages development of certain fields of creative industry (design, media, architecture, music and film production, IT technologies, creative tourism). The artistic and cultural program stems from a conception of sustained maintainable activities with long-lasting effects on cultural life in Košice and its region.

## Participating countries

22 countries participated in the edition. One country returned to the contest; Kosovo, who last took part in the first edition and Estonia, who last took part in the third edition.

However, two countries withdrew from the edition; Croatia and Latvia withdrew from the edition, each one for different reasons.

### Returning artists

Pink Angels was internally selected to represent Czech Republic for the second time; they previously represented the country in the second edition as a solo artist. Playmen, who previously competed in the second edition for Greece, returned to represent the country for the second time. Vintage returned to represent Russia for the second time after last taking part in the second edition. Pancho DNK was internatlly selected to represent FYR Macedonia for the second time; he previously represented the country in the fourth edition as a solo singer featuring Thea, but he returned to represent FYR Macedonia as DNK a duo with members Pancho and Andreja.

## Other countries

*Further information: List of countries in the Slavic Vision Song Contest*
Countries that are active members of the Slavic Broadcasting Union (SBU) are also eligible to participate in the Slavic Vision Song Contest. As in every edition, an invitation to all the members have been sent in order to confirm whether they will participate or not. The following list of countries declined stating their reasons as shown below.

### Active SBU members

* Croatia: On 24 April 2017, HRT announced that Croatia would not be competing in the sixth-edition due to budget costs.
* Latvia: On 16 April 2017, Latvijas Televīzija announced it would be withdrawing from the contest, stating that the cost of participation is too high, and also due to the disappointing results in previous editions.