Russia's Polina Bogusevich won this year's Junior Eurovision song contest, held on Sunday in Georgia. Armenia, represented by 9-year-old Misha, took the sixth place. Misha performed the song “Boomerang” composed by Vahram Petrosyan, Avet Barseghyan, Davit Tserunyan, and Artur Aghekyan.
This year the winner was chosen by international experts, children's juries and online voting. Based on the results of the jury vote, Armenia received 12 points from Cyprus, 10 points from Albania, Ukraine, Russia Poland, Georgia, 8 points – from Belarus and Portugal, 7 points – from Malta, 3 points – from Australia, and 2 points – from Macedonia and Serbia. Our representative received 148 points in total 56 out of which came from online public voting.
Georgia’s Grigol Kipshidze took the second place with 185 points, and Isabella Clarke of Australia was third with 172 points.
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest is an annual song competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union since 2003 for competitors aged from 9 to 14.