SERGEY SHAKUROV BROUGHT HIS ARMENIAN WIFE TO AZERBAIJAN

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Nov 6 2006

After their concert in Heydar Aliyev Palace famous Russian actors
Lyudmila Gurchenko and Sergey Shakurov visited Armenia, APA reports
quoting to Arminfo.

During their press conference in Armenia Shakurov said he loves
Armenians and added that his wife Ekaterina Balova is Armenian. She
is a theater producer. "There was no problem in my wife’s coming
to Azerbaijan, as she has a Russian surname. But as my costumier is
Armenian during our visit to Azerbaijan she was not allowed to come
to Azerbaijan. I don’t understand it," he said.

Expressing his attitude to the question the concert organizer the head
of the "Teatral" company Azer Guliyev said he does not believe this.

"His wife is not Armenian. I don’t believe that Shakurov said so,"
he said.

Culture and Tourism Ministry Press Service Department expressed no
opinion on the problem.