{"id":558321,"date":"2021-05-21T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipn.md\/moldova-qualifies-for-eurovision-final\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:05:07","slug":"moldova-qualifies-for-eurovision-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipn.md\/en\/moldova-qualifies-for-eurovision-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova qualifies for Eurovision final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom:11px\">Natalia Gordienco, who this year represents the Republic of Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song \u201cSugar\u201d, went through to the final that will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on May 22, IPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>In the second semifinal of May 20, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Iceland, San Marino, Switzerland, Greece and Finland qualified for the final alongside Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists decided in the first semifinal of May 18 are Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus, Israel, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine. Romania failed to qualify for the final.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background:white\">At the previous edition of 2019, the last one held before the pandemic, Moldova\u2019s representative Anna Odobescu didn\u2019t reach the final. A year earlier, in 2018,\u00a0\u201cDoReDoS\u201d ranked tenth with the song \u201cMy lucky day\u201d. The best result for Moldova was achieved by \u201cSunStroke Project\u201d in 2017 \u2013 third place.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"related_pages_keyphrase\" style=\"display:none;\">Eurovision<\/div>\n<div class=\"related_articles\">\n<div class=\"related_articles_title\">See related articles:<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.old.ipn.md\/en\/eurovision-2020-annulled-because-of-covid-19-7967_1072282.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eurovision 2020 annulled because of COVID-19<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.old.ipn.md\/en\/moldova-fails-to-qualify-for-eurovision-2019-final-7967_1048728.html\" target=\"_blank\">Moldova fails to qualify for Eurovision 2019 final<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.old.ipn.md\/en\/israel-wins-2018-eurovision-song-contest-7967_1041645.html\" target=\"_blank\">Israel wins 2018 Eurovision Song Contest<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.old.ipn.md\/en\/moldova-achieves-best-result-in-eurovision-7967_1034470.html\" target=\"_blank\">Moldova achieves best result in Eurovision<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalia Gordienco, who this year represents the Republic of Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song \u201cSugar\u201d, went through to the final that will be held in Rotterdam,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":557310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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