Belarus

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**Belarus** has participated in the **Eurovision Song Festival** 16 times since making its debut in 1.

## History

On 18 October 2016, Belarus confirmed it would debut in the first edition of the Eurovision Song Festival. BTRC internally selected Milki to represent the country with the upbeat song "Accent". Belarus eventually placed seventeenth in their semi-final with a total of 27 points, meaning that the country failed to qualify for the final. The next three editions, the country also failed to make it to the final, finishing eighteenth twice and fifteenth once, what was their best result up till then.

In the fifth edition of the contest, the country selected Alyona Lanskaya to represent the country. She was the first returning artist to take part for Belarus, as she already had represented the country in the second edition of the contest. She managed to qualify for the final with her song "Roman," eventually finishing last in the final. It was the first time the country reached the finals.

After not qualifying for the finals for four more times, including a last place finish in the semi-final of the ninth edition, the head of delegation was sacked by the broadcaster and was replaced with a new one. Furthermore, to increase the results the broadcaster made a deal with the Ukrainian broadcaster NTU which allowed BTRC to approach the runner-up of the Ukrainian national final to represent the country in the contest. After Ani Lorak placed second in the final of Ukrayins'ka storona 10, BTRC approached her to represent Belarus in that edition instead. She agreed and made it to the final, where she finished fifteenth, Belarus' best result to date.

In the eleventh edition of the contest, BTRC approached NK, artist name of Nastia Kamenskykh, to represent the country. Like Ani Lorak, she finished second in the Ukrainian national final for the eleventh edition of the contest. She qualified for the final and went on to place twenty-first.

After the eleventh edition, the contract between NTU and BTRC was terminated following a disagreement between the broadcasters about the amount of money BTRC had to pay. As a result, the head of delegation of the country quit and had to be replaced by a new one. Eventually, the broadcaster approached Alyona Lanskaya to be the head of delegation for the country at the contest, to which she agreed. Under her watch, no artist made it to the finals as of yet.

Following the unrest in the aftermath of the Belarusian rigged elections, the broadcaster was allowed to participate one more time before having to commit itself to demands made from the EBO. NEMIGA with "Rukava" was selected, but they finished second to last in their semi-final. After this edition, Alyona Lanskaya quit her job, as she felt uncomfortable with supporting a broadcaster under the rule of Lukashenko.

For edition sixteen, it was decided that Belarus would no longer be allowed to participate, as broadcaster BTRC violated several agreements made between the EBO and the broadcaster. As a result, Belarus was not able to enter the contest held in Ukraine. However, after constructive talks between the EBO, Belsat TV and TVP, it was announced that Belarus would be able to take part through Belsat TV, which is owned by TVP, the Polish broadcaster.

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