ARMENIA PARTICIPATING IN “EUROVISION-2006” FOR FIRST TIME TAKES 8TH PLACE

Noyan Tapan
May 22 2006

YEREVAN, MAY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The “Lordi” rock group from Finland was
recognized the winner at the final stage of the “Eurovision-2006”
song festival taken place in Athens on May 20. Armenia which was
participating in the competition for the first time, took the honorary
8th place as a result of the votion of spectators of 38 countries. And
this means that the representative of our country gets a possibility to
participate in the final stage of the next, “Eurovision-2007” festival,
without participating in the semi-final. Andre’s “Without Your Love”
song was given the highest, 12 points, by Belgium, Russia each, 10
points by Holland, France, Greece, Turkey each, 8 points by Ukraine,
Belarus, Spain, Israel, Bulgaria each. 7 points were given to Armenia
by Cyprus and Moldova, 5 points by Poland, 3 points by Germany, 2
points by Lithuania, 1 point was given by Romania. Representative of
Russia Dima Bilan took the 2nd place at the festival, representative
of Bosnia and Herzegovina Hari Mata Hari took the 3rd place.