Armenia will take 8th place in Eurovision Semifinal, forecasts sayMay 12, 2009 - 22:50 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Readers and members of independent Eurovision Song Contest website have been predicting the outcome of each Semifinal, and the results are grouped geographically and then worked out based on the Eurovision Song Contest scoring Prediction.Over 100,000 predictions have been made by more than 6,000 members of esctoday.com. The 10 countries predicted to qualify from tonight's semi final are: 1. Turkey 2. Bosnia Herzegovina 3. Sweden 4. Iceland 5. Malta 6. Finland 7. Romania 8. Armenia 9. Portugal 10. Switzerland Contest participants from 18 countries, including Inga and Anush with their song, Nor Par, will be competing for passage to the finals of May 16. First contest evening will be hosted by supermodel Natalya Vodyanova and TV presenter Andrey Malakhov. After all songs have been performed, viewers can vote by making a phone call or sending an SMS for their favorite songs. Ten qualified countries will be announced at the end of each Semifinal. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |