ATTENTION, ADDED VERSION YEREVAN, MAY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. The "Lordi" rock group from Finland was recognized the winner at the final stage of the "Eurovision-2006" song festival taken place in Athens on May 20. Armenia which was participating in the competition for the first time, took the honorary 8th place as a result of the votion of spectators of 38 countries. And this means that the representative of our country gets a possibility to participate in the final stage of the next, "Eurovision-2007" festival, without participating in the semi-final. Andre's "Without Your Love" song was given the highest, 12 points, by Belgium, Russia each, 10 points by Holland, France, Greece, Turkey each, 8 points by Ukraine, Belarus, Spain, Israel, Bulgaria each. 7 points were given to Armenia by Cyprus and Moldova, 5 points by Poland, 3 points by Germany, 2 points by Lithuania, 1 point was given by Romania. Representative of Russia Dima Bilan took the 2nd place at the festival, representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina Hari Mata Hari took the 3rd place. Romania, Sweden, Lithuania, Ukraine, Armenia, Greece and Ireland took correspondingly the 4-10th places. As representatives of a number of countries mentioned in the interview to the Noyan Tapan correspondent, many people were in perplexity in the issue of voting for Andre. According to their insistences, if another song was presented, or at least the same song without the instrumentation specific for Turkish music, Andre would have far more votes and would take one of the first places.

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