14:25 . 28/05
Sweden’s representative Loreen won in the Eurovision-2012 Song Contest with her “Euphoria”. Thus, Eurovision-2013 will be held in Stockholm.
Sweden hosted Eurovision Song Contest in 1999. As it was expected, Buranovo Grannies representing Russia showed high results coming the second after Loreen. Serbia’s ZeljkoYoksimovic was the third.
26 countries- Lithuania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Ukraine, Sweden, Macedonia, Norway, Estonia, Malta, Turkey, Romania, Moldova, Iceland, Hungary, Denmark, Albania, Cyprus, Greece, Russia, Ireland, Great Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and the hosting country Azerbaijan participated in the final.
Azerbaijan gained the right to host the contest owing to Eldar Gasimov and Nigar Camal duet in Eurovision-2011.
Armenia refused to participate in Eurovision-2012 saying it is not rational to participate in a song contest in a country, which shows hostile attitude towards our country.
To note, Armenia’s public TV aired the song contest though till the start of the final it was still not known whether it would air the contest or not. In this respect the public TV has also circulated a statement, which says the public TV didn’t finally confirm it would air the contest, as there was no confidence it would meet the contest standards and wouldn’t include deviations of contents. The speech particularly refers to Nagorno-Karabakh: “There was a fear and that fear was confirmed by the materials sent to the commentators, from which it became clear that Azerbaijan’s introductory “postcard” is called Karabakh. It was said in the “postcard” that Karabakh is one of the cultural centres of Azerbaijan, Shushi was mentioned, etc.
The public TV complained against the contents of the “postcard”. The European Broadcasting Union promised to change it by means of the host country. EBU Media Director Annika Nyberg Frankenhauser stated they admit that mentioning the topic of Nagorno-Karabakh will bring about political discussions, which contradicts the rules of Eurovision song contest.
Then they told from Azerbaijan to the Europeans that by saying Karabakh they didn’t bear in mind Nagorno-Karabakh but a larger territory. EBU assured us that the clip would be aired in an edited version, without political hints. One can at least understand from all this that at least in this plane Azerbaijan’s pretensions for Artsakh face suppression by the Europeans.”
