{"id":10642,"date":"2012-05-25T18:33:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=10642"},"modified":"2012-05-25T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:36:19","slug":"armenia-boycotted-eurovision-after-shooting-of-soldier-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=10642","title":{"rendered":"Armenia boycotted Eurovision after shooting of soldier &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the run-up to the Eurovision finals set to take place in Azerbaijan\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s capital Baku this Saturday, CNN has prepared a footage highlighting the political background of the contest.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Azerbaijan\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s hostile policies towards Armenia, the US-based channel emphasizes that Armenia pulled out of the contest after its soldier was shot dead on the border in March.<br \/>\nIt then compares Spain with the Aliyev-led Azerbaijan, noting that Austria refused to compete in Madrid in 1968 as a sign of protest against the regime\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s vote-buying campaign that paved way to hosting Eurovision.<\/p>\n<p>\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093More recently, Lebanon pulled out of its scheduled Eurovision debut in 2005 in a spat over its refusal to broadcast the Israeli performance. Lebanese TV channel, Tele Liban, told the European Broadcasting Union, which broadcasts Eurovision, that Lebanon&#8217;s legislation made it almost impossible to broadcast Israeli content, putting Tele-liban in breach of contest rules,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d says the footage.<br \/>\nCharacterizing Eurovision a frothy, kitsch spectacle, CNN says in the meantime that the contest has long been a forum for heated geopolitical grandstanding, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093with allegations of bloc voting and political skulduggery dogging the contest for years\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>tert.am<\/p>\n<p>The full footage is below.<br \/>\n\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tert.am\/en\/\">\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In the run-up to the Eurovision finals set to take place in Azerbaijan\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s capital Baku this Saturday, CNN has prepared a footage highlighting the political background of the contest. &nbsp; Addressing Azerbaijan\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s hostile policies towards <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=10642\" title=\"Armenia boycotted Eurovision after shooting of soldier &#8211; CNN\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10644,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions\/10644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}