Eurovision Song Contest 2012 (22.24.26 may 2012), Hello Europe, this is Baku calling! Options

[world_idols]

sorry about your computer and that you are missing posting with us , I am used to watching with your every year. Good luck to Denmark today
not one of my faves

im very sorry that i could not come and add my post at the eurovision 2012 finale



here is my list from the finale of eurovisin 2012

good list
02_Hungary
[Compact Disco - Sound Of Our Hearts]
06_Russia
[Band Buranovskiye Babushki - Party For Everybody]
09_France
[Anggun - "Echo (You and I)"]
10_Italy
[Nina Zilli - "L'amore è femmina"]
12_Norway
[Tooji - «Stay»]
14_Romania
[Mandinga – Zaleilah]
15_Denmark
[Soluna - Should've Known Better]
16_Greece
[Eleftheria Eleftheriou "Aphrodisiac"]
17_Sweden
[Loreen - "Euphoria"]
18_Turkey
[Can Bonomo - Love Me Back]
20_Germany
[Roman Lob - "Standing Still"]
21_Malta
[Kurt Calleja - This Is The Night]
23_Ireland
[Jedward - "Waterline"]
25_Ukraine
[Gaitana - Be My Guest]
26_Moldova
[Pasha Parfeny - Lăutar]

bad list
03_Albania
[Rona Nishliu - Suus]
07_Iceland
[Gréta Salóme & Jónsi - "Never Forget"]
08_Cyprus
[Ivi Adamou - La La Love]
19_Spain
[Pastora Soler - "Quédate conmigo"]
22_FYR Macedonia
[Kaliopi - Crno i belo]

dont know list
01_United Kingdom
[Engelbert Humperdinck "Love Will Set You Free"]
04_Lithuania
[Donny Montell "Love is blind"]
05_Bosnia & Herzegovina
[Maya Sar – Korake ti znam]
11_Estonia
[Ott Lepland "Kuula"]
13_Azerbaijan
[Sabina Babayeva - "When The Music Dies",]
24_Serbia
[Željko Joksimović - "Nije ljubav stvar" (Није љубав ствар)]



comgratulations to sweden


i have to say true that im very desipontet over all the diffrent countrys
who was giving sms/points
denmark we did not get any good points
only 21 points meens place 23

This post has been edited by world_idols: Jun 3rd 2012, 3:17 PM

[istersay]

Welcome back , hope you get some help with your computer.

Denmark should have gotten way more points than they did Does this mean Denmark cannot join in next year?

[world_idols]

denmark we are comming to eurovision 2013

we have to compete in semi finale again

[istersay]

denmark we are comming to eurovision 2013

we have to compete in semi finale again

oh good, better luck next year

[world_idols]

i have this news from the germany eurovision homepage - http://www.eurovision.de/news/international/baku221.html



Prevented terrorist attack on the ESC?

In Azerbaijan, security forces seem to have a stop on the Euro Vision Song Contest prevented. The bericheten several agencies, citing the Ministry of National Security in Baku. On Wednesday before the final 40 suspects have been arrested. Two suspects were originally from Azerbaijan, according to official figures, killed because they had fought with arms against their arrest. For this, a greater number of weapons and explosives had been seized.

Car bombs in front of hotels?

The main aim of the group to have been controlled from the Russian republic of Dagestan was the final of the ESC on 26 May have been. Those arrested were worried tickets for the show in the Crystal Hall. Other targets of their attacks were President Ilham Aliyev and police buildings, luxury hotels, mosques and other religious sites have been. Among other things, the group had planned to detonate car bombs in front of the Marriott and Hilton, as it said in the statement of the ministry continues. In the hotels, many foreign ESC delegations were staying. The information about the arrests had been held back to a panic among citizens and foreign guests of the song to avoid contest.

From well-informed sources said, this message should be classified as credible.

Sietse Bakker, project leader of the Euro Vision Song Contest in the European Broadcast Union (EBU) in Geneva, told eurovision.de, it is perfectly entitled Azerbaijan to withhold reports of this kind until after the final. The EBU was not informed of the arrests and the backgrounds. "Events of this size always pose a risk, but because of the good cooperation we have experienced a successful and safe ESC," said Bakker.

More pressure on the opposition?

Azerbaijani opposition figures and human rights activists against eurovision.de suspect that the authoritarian leadership of the anti-terror fight only uses as a pretext to move against the opposition can consistently - the message was to divert attention. The Südkaukasusrepublik adjacent to Iran, despite its Islamic character is not so far as the target of terrorists. However, there has been some time trying to advance the religious radicalization. This is done out of Dagestan.

With the Euro Vision Song Contest Azerbaijan moved into the spotlight. It was among other things, from the circles of human rights activists in Baku as in Western and Northern Europe, but also by religious groups in Iran, it argued that the song contest in which President Aliyev authoritarian state should ever be fought.

oh good, better luck next year

yes i also hope we have this next year

[istersay]

wow, that is really scary

[world_idols]

wow, that is really scary

yes it is
everything can happens in all the diffrent countrys

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here is new update that germany tv news has talk about Azerbaijan
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/aserbaidschan168.html (link from germany news)


After Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan

Baku shows his true colors?

Two and a half weeks after the Euro Vision Song Contest in Azerbaijan for the country's attention has waned considerably. Many had feared that the government after the competition even tougher than before could be upheld against the opposition. The signs are there.

Silvia Flushing, tagesschau.de, zzt. Tbilisi

The pompously celebrated EuroVision Song Contest has been over two and half weeks. A short visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Azerbaijani capital Baku goes back several days. The attention of the country on the Caspian Sea is reduced by a significant degree.



However, contacts and channels of information in social networks continue to function. So a headline quickly made the rounds: The photographer Mehman Huseynov is in police custody. After an interrogation he was not allowed to return home. Huseynov was accused of hooliganism, said a Home Office spokesman said transmitter RFERL. He had on when an unannounced demonstration 21st May, several policemen insulted and physically assaulted. According to the Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova witnesses saw how Huseynov attacked and his camera was damaged. Meanwhile, there was a hearing in court. Although Huseynov must not remain in custody, but the charges were not dropped. The photographer of hooliganism should be found guilty, he faces up to five years in prison

Meeting of Loreen and Huseynov

Huseynov was always already there, as the activists and dissidents in 2011 after the model of the Arab Spring organized protests in Baku. His photographs show how police officers more or less violent protest by the people led away places and squeezed into police cars. With Huseynov, his brother Emin and other organizers of the "Sing for Democracy" met the Swedish ESC winner Loreen to talk about the human rights situation in Azerbaijan.

Press spokesman for the opposition to interrogation

In addition, the police interrogated Natiq Adilov, journalist and spokesman of the Popular Front Party. He is accused, he had on 24 May an unauthorized protest action organized. Adilov could go after it was suggested to him to finish his commitment to the opposition.

Adilov and another opposition journalist still waiting for clarification of a deliberate discrediting. Both had been secretly filmed at night in a hotel. They had participated in a seminar of the German Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Deutsche Welle. A pro-government channel recordings showed that, as protests were held in 2011.

Lifelong immunity to the President and the First Lady


In addition, the Parliament approved a law change that President Ilham Aliyev and his wife Mehriban Aliyeva future lifelong immunity from prosecution. In addition, access to information concerning the registration, ownership structure and shareholder was limited to Azerbaijani companies. About the business activities of the president's family, the journalist Ismayilova had conducted several investigative reporting. They found that the Aliyev were also involved in business building activities for the Euro Vision Song Contest.

Retribution, warning or test?

Show the interrogations of journalists to return to normalcy after the Euro Vision Song Contest, how Huseynov had warned of the song contest? Is it the start, expected by many Azerbaijani activists retaliatory action after the international press had not only on the ESC, but also reported extensively on the difficult human rights situation? The leadership in Baku had reacted angrily to these reports clearly. Activists and the opposition had accused them of wanting to harm the country. If the arrest is a warning or a test, how much international attention is yet?

This much is certain: On the character understands the Azerbaijani government. Before last week was U.S. Secretary of State Clinton on a visit to Baku, the opposition politician Bakhtijar Hajiyev was released early from prison. Clinton was later seen talking to Hajiyev, a great success for the Foreign Minister, and one less name on the list of those who have landed in jail for political reasons. The court could take Huseynov, should he be convicted, without confirming the allegations against him.

Report on political prisoners

A list of more than 50 names of persons who are serving prison sentences for political reasons, presumably, is being tested in Europe. Azerbaijan had committed itself in 2001 with the accession to the European organization to release all political prisoners.

There is still a subject of conflict. For two and a half now trying the German SPD politician Christoph Strässer to prepare a report on political prisoners, but he got a visa for Azerbaijan. Instead, he came under intense pressure from the Azerbaijani leadership. Strässer will submit its report in late June. But if the pressure be enough for all that is old and new political prisoners are released, is doubtful. And as often as not a prominent member of the U.S. government travel to the Caspian Sea.