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When pop star Dima Bilan won in Belgrade last year, Russia earned the right to host the annual Eurovision competition, one of Europe's most watched annual shows with a TV audience of at least 100 million viewers. Now, 42 countries stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Caspian Sea coast are finalizing months of preparation for the lavish talent competition, being held at a stadium built for Moscow's hosting of the 1980 Olympic Games. "It's one of the world's greatest television events," Terry Wogan, the veteran BBC television presenter who has commentated on Eurovision since 1971, recently told Reuters in an interview. Local media have reported that the Russian capital has spent about $42 million preparing for the competition, making it one of the most expensive ever Eurovision shows. The Russian winner of Miss World 2008 advertises Eurovision on posters around Moscow and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin toured the venue on Saturday to check on preparations. Barry Viniker, who runs the Eurovision fan website www.esctoday.com, said Moscow had dramatically improved the quality of the event. "Moscow is simply putting on the best Eurovision ever." As in other years, politics are never far away. Gay rights campaigners have vowed to ignore a potential ban and will march through Moscow on Saturday a few hours before the Eurovision final. Russian activists have asked competitors to back gay rights on stage in a city whose mayor Yuri Luzhkov once described gay pride marches as "satanic." The competition's governing body banned ex-Soviet Georgia, with which Russia fought a brief war last August, from the competition because its entry song -- a veiled jibe at Putin -- was considered too political. The voting system this year has also changed. Unlike last year's final, half the votes on May 16 will come from professional judges from individual countries, as well as the regular voting awarded by the public. 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