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Armenia: Eurovision Reaction

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 @ 07:46 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

Countries:: Russia, Armenia
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Music
Languages:: English

Ianyan rounds up the reaction to Armenia's entry in this year Eurovision Song Contest currently under way in Moscow. The blog says that the two singers, Inga and Anush, could be described as “traditional Armenian wear meets Star Wars meets Diva Plavalaguna from The Fifth Element.”

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# 2009-05-14 at 19:00 pm
Mark Dias

The Israeli song was one of the best songs.

Mark
http://mark24609.blogspot.com/2009/05/eurovision-there-must-be-another-way.html

# 2009-05-15 at 1:46 am

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