The Scandal Surrounding the "Eurovision" Internationalized
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov said at talks in Moscow, spoke about the scandal surrounding the vote on "Eurovision", Russian Foreign Ministry said.
A source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti that "in the course of negotiations the Azerbaijani side has given an explanation of what happened to" the Russian points. "
Moscow is not happy that the Russian participants of stolen votes at Eurovision, this "outrageous action will not remain unanswered," Lavrov said.
Note that on the eve of the Azerbaijani officials said the falsification of election results in Azerbaijan, where the reality of 10 points was given for the Russian singer, and according to the declared data, it did not get anything.
Meanwhile, a representative of the European Broadcasting Union has expressed doubts about the reliability of reports of distorting the results of the voting.
"If during the vote on the final of" Eurovision "would be any violation, so far we have received the signal.
Voting is conducted by our partner Digamo and evaluated by PriceWatersHouseCoopers. If you have any questions would be, we would have done signal ", - said the coordinator of the European Broadcasting Union's Eurovision Jarmo Siim in an interview with BBC-Azerbaijan.
"As far as we know, it was just," - he added. -06D -
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