Ethnographer Gagik Ginosyan said the state’s such close attention to Eurovision song contest is senseless.

Though Armenia won the Karabakh war, now it suffers defeats in peacetime, Ginosyan, the art director of Karin fold dance ensemble, told journalist.

“We suffer defeats in the cultural policy. The humanity should have conceived the fact that Kochari is our national dance long ago. We should not have transferred the dance into Eurovision plane to be blamed by Azerbaijanis for lifting the dance from them,” said Ginosyan.

According to him, the state should finance the real Armenian art rather than focus on Eurovision. Nevertheless, Ginosyan wished Armenia’s Emmy success at the song contest.

Emmy will participate in the semifinal of Eurovision Sing Contest 2011 on May 10 with Boom-Boom song. The opening ceremony took place on May 7. The semifinals are scheduled for May 10 and 12. The final is due on May 14.