Lithuania

Back to the coast of the Baltic Sea and on to another former Soviet republic:  Lithuania!  First debuting in the 1994 contest in Dublin (along with its neighbor Estonia), Lithuania's first bit of Eurovision history was unfortunately the dreaded nul points (a.k.a., "tuck your tail between your legs and run home"). The next year,  Lithuania (along with other low scoring countries) had to submit its entry to a preliminary round each year, and there the qualifiers for the show were picked by an international jury (this was later replaced by the Semi Finals).  The 1994 result, and subsequent poor results in the preliminaries, led to a five year period Lithuanian absence from the Eurovision show(s).  The country returned to the 1999 contest in Jerusalem, but faltered at the bottom of the score boards until its 2006 entry in Athens.  After placing fifth in the Semi Final, LT United's We Are The Winners football-chant "song," brought Lithuania its best placement (and first and only Top Ten) in the Contest:

The subsequent contests have remained unkind to Lithuania in the Finals (when and if they qualified), and the country basically became a point distribution system for Russia's (& its Baltic neighbors' and ex-Soviet friends') entries every year.  Surprisingly, Lithuania receives high marks from both Ireland and the UK (there's a sociology dissertation, or at least a Eurovision interest story there).  This year's entry is presented by Andrius Pojavis in the form of Something.  At least the song title is descriptive of its contents...it's something (erm, is this thing on?), but is it going to be enough to get Lithuania back on top of the score board?