Armenia: Politics & Eurovision

sirusho 0010Spectacular Self-Indulgence reports that the venue for yesterday’s final to select Sirusho’s entry into the Eurovision Song Contest was changed because of the current state of emergency in the country. The blog is furious, but more about interfering with a Eurovision final than the political situation.

[…] Mark my words. It’s one thing to engage in unlawful surveillance of your political enemies. It’s quite a different matter to fuck with a pop music contest.

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Over here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. We may trample on the rights of our citizens in the name of democracy, but at least the gub’mint has not cancelled our beloved American Idol! […]

Photo: © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2008



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