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EUROVISION'S DIRTY SECRET - BBC (VIDEO )
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2012/05/23/bbc-eurovision-dirty-secret/
23.05.12
With just a few days left until the Eurovision Song Contest, BBC
Panorama has prepared a film about Azerbaijan to discover the truth
about the 2012 host country and its approach to what it has called
world's most watched non-sporting event.
Reporter Paul Kenyon finds out how the contest has been used as a
tool of intimidation.
The film, which lasts 30 minutes uncovers all the facts that discredit
Azerbaijan as a country which earned the right to organize the 2012
contest after its representatives, Eldar Gasimov and Nigar Jamal,
won the first place in Germany last year.
According to Kenyon, Azerbaijan has taken advantage of the contest
for political ends. He considers Eurovision a chance for the country
to sing a song of respectability amid the criticism against its
repressive regime. Kenyon recalls the country's hostile attitude to
Armenia's 2009 participants, Inga and Anush Arshakyans, noting that
Azerbaijan stopped the broadcast as the singers made their entry on
the stage. The BBC reporter believes Armenia is not attending this
year's contest for security considerations. He has talked to Rovshan
Nasril, an ethnic Azerbaijani, who voted for Armenia as a sign of
protest against his country's anti-democratic move.
Kenyon has also interviewed Azerbaijani Ambassador to the UK Fakhraddin
Gurbanov and the organizer of the contest Ingrid Deltenre, to know
their opinion about the democracy situation in the country.
The full film is below.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2012/05/23/bbc-eurovision-dirty-secret/
23.05.12
With just a few days left until the Eurovision Song Contest, BBC
Panorama has prepared a film about Azerbaijan to discover the truth
about the 2012 host country and its approach to what it has called
world's most watched non-sporting event.
Reporter Paul Kenyon finds out how the contest has been used as a
tool of intimidation.
The film, which lasts 30 minutes uncovers all the facts that discredit
Azerbaijan as a country which earned the right to organize the 2012
contest after its representatives, Eldar Gasimov and Nigar Jamal,
won the first place in Germany last year.
According to Kenyon, Azerbaijan has taken advantage of the contest
for political ends. He considers Eurovision a chance for the country
to sing a song of respectability amid the criticism against its
repressive regime. Kenyon recalls the country's hostile attitude to
Armenia's 2009 participants, Inga and Anush Arshakyans, noting that
Azerbaijan stopped the broadcast as the singers made their entry on
the stage. The BBC reporter believes Armenia is not attending this
year's contest for security considerations. He has talked to Rovshan
Nasril, an ethnic Azerbaijani, who voted for Armenia as a sign of
protest against his country's anti-democratic move.
Kenyon has also interviewed Azerbaijani Ambassador to the UK Fakhraddin
Gurbanov and the organizer of the contest Ingrid Deltenre, to know
their opinion about the democracy situation in the country.
The full film is below.