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2000s
Elena Paparizou (Winner 2005)

The new millennium saw a sea change in many countries fortunes with more and more entrants from the former Soviet Union leading to a massive issue with neighbour and diaspora voting, most shamelessly in those countries and those of the former Yugoslavia, that threatens the very future of the event.  The power base in Eurovision has most definitely moved to the East and South of the continent and to a select bunch of countries within that region.  Look at the table below.  Whilst Serbia/Montenegro no longer exists, the other members of the top seven are leaving the rest behind due to their vast armies of ex-patriots, encouraged by a voting system that the organizers seem happy to leave in place. The free language rule changed just before the millennium and this may or may not be related to the UK and Ireland's quite spectacular plummet down the table. 

00s 90s    
1 -- Serbia (-380)
2 -- Ukraine 137
3 20 Russia 153
4 16 Greece 180
5 -- Serbia & Montenegro 187
6 22 Turkey 236
7 -- Armenia 275
8 4 Sweden 410
9 -- Latvia 420
10 27 Bosnia 457
11 -- Georgia 470
12 14 Denmark 480
13 33 Romania 481
14 8 Norway 557
15 17 Estonia 565
16 7 Croatia 576
17 13 Spain 585
18 6 Malta 590
19 31 Finland 595
20 15 Germany 610
21 -- Moldova 624
22 29 Hungary 624
23 -- FYR Macedonia 683
24 10 France 688
25 5 Israel 696
26 -- Albania 727
27 12 Cyprus 731
28 1 Ireland 735
29 21 Austria 739
30 3 United Kingdom 746
31 10 Iceland 754
32 25 Slovenia 790
33 32 Lithuania 799
34 26 Belgium 816
35 18 Poland 818
36 11 Netherlands 823
37 23 Switzerland 826
38 24 Portugal 862

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