• Russia: Azerbaijan's points snub is "outrageous", "will not remain without a response"
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Help I can't think of a more sensationalist title and Smurfy's asleep [img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67722000/jpg/_67722519_67712207.jpg[/img] [quote=Beeb]Russia's foreign minister has called [b]Azerbaijan's failure to award any points to Russia's entry in the Eurovision song contest "outrageous".[/b] Sergei Lavrov said the [b]points had been "stolen"[/b] from Russia's Dina Garipova and [b]"this outrageous action will not remain without a response".[/b] Azerbaijan says it cannot explain how it awarded no points to Russia, when Garipova came second in its phone poll. Russian voters awarded the maximum 12 points to Azerbaijan's Farid Mammadov. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has ordered an inquiry into how its votes for Russia apparently went missing. And the country's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, sitting next to Mr Lavrov at a press conference in Moscow, called it a "detective story". He said records from all three of Azerbaijan's mobile phone operators show that Azeris awarded Ukraine's entry the most votes, followed by Russia's. "Where did the votes go? How did they disappear? This, of course, is a question for our public television," he said.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22609523[/url] Could this be the beginning of the Eurovision Cold War?
This is definitely important
and this is the reason why eurovision is pointless as votes are political and not actually remotely down to how shit each country's entry is
[QUOTE=Instant Mix;40731969]and this is the reason why eurovision is pointless as votes are political and not actually remotely down to how shit each country's entry is[/QUOTE]but what about 2006 were people so dumbfounded that they voted Finland just because?
an act of war calls for a military response.
tbh this is shady
Oh my god. IT'S HAPPENING.
I remember reading somewhere that given the number of text votes submitted by Azerbaijan Russia should have been awarded at least 10 points. The thing is, at the end of the day the songs that win Eurovision are good, at least in comparison to the others entered that year. We can bitch and moan about politics and 'Block Voting' as much as we like but that acts that should win do. More often than not that kind of belly aching is just sour grapes.
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