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ARMENIAN SINGERS BOYCOTT BAKU EUROVISION
Vestnik Kavkaza
March 6 2012
Russia
Over 20 Armenian singers filed a note to the European Broadcasting
Union and the Public TV Company of Armenia on February 23, stating
that they do not want to participate in the 2012 Eurovision Song
Contest held in Baku, Turan reports.
The statement was made after murder of Albert Adibekyan, an Armenian
serviceman shot by a sniper at the Chinari Village of the Tavush
Region. No officials confirmation of the sniper shot was published.
Initial reports could not clarify how the soldier was killed in an
area with no contact line on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border.
Later reports said that Abibekyan was killed by his brother-in-arms
Ignat Yengibaryan.
The statement is believed to be an initiative of Armenian authorities
to give a political image to economic reasons for refusal to attend
the song contest in Baku.
Vestnik Kavkaza
March 6 2012
Russia
Over 20 Armenian singers filed a note to the European Broadcasting
Union and the Public TV Company of Armenia on February 23, stating
that they do not want to participate in the 2012 Eurovision Song
Contest held in Baku, Turan reports.
The statement was made after murder of Albert Adibekyan, an Armenian
serviceman shot by a sniper at the Chinari Village of the Tavush
Region. No officials confirmation of the sniper shot was published.
Initial reports could not clarify how the soldier was killed in an
area with no contact line on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border.
Later reports said that Abibekyan was killed by his brother-in-arms
Ignat Yengibaryan.
The statement is believed to be an initiative of Armenian authorities
to give a political image to economic reasons for refusal to attend
the song contest in Baku.