Eurovision 2012 – The official Azeri website of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, eurovision.az has released a great 55-minute video of backstage footage from Eurovision week 2012. For everyone who was not in Baku the video is a great opportunity to get a feeling of the atmosphere. We see artists arriving at the airport, partying and more! Thanks to JP from Radio International for the tip! Here is the video! Enjoy!
Source= eurovision.az
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Somehow I have a feeling that I’ve already seen this footage, or at least part of it, before; I may be wrong though. Anyway I quite enjoyed it (parts of i, that is, because I didn’t watch the whole 55 mins)
off topic: less than 9 hrs to London 2012 opening ceremony; can’t wait!
Best wishes to Londoners and all the people in the UK
Me either… that gives me motivation to clean out my room ^^ I’m moooving on ^^… Anyway, I dropped off my three thesis’ today and I think i will finally have some time to finish some more Eurovision Through the Years
Can’t wait; I’m really enjoying those articles
what will you say about police in the UK arresting 130 cyclist protesters who tried to breach security during Olympics??? I hope London police has been bashed as much as ours when they tried to ensure stability and security in Baku for ESC! I can imagine you guys will be applying double standards here
thanks for putting up the video found it intresting, love to go to a eurovision final some day in the future it looks great fun
i also cant wait until the opening ceremony will be watching it on tv with a few mates here in sunny wales lol
love to go to a eurovision final one day it looks great fun
i must say i can not weight until the opening ceremony will be watching on tv with a few mates here in sunny wales lol
Eh, eh…
I liked seeing more of the artist and what everybody did.
But was it really necessary to put every minute at least one comment by random journalist saying the show -WAS- great? Several times, no less.
maybe they were saying that because everybody was overwhelmed and wanted to say it???
You don’t get it. It’s not about the people commenting. It’s about how the comments were positioned at every chance, too often, too repetitive always the same.
I work doing videos and usually you avoid doing exactly that.
It’s bad taste.
Yes I get it. You don’t get it – Azerbaijan needs to have this boost of self-esteem. We are finding our identity after USSR robbed us of it. We need to make ourselves believe that we can do things – something until recent time Azeris didn’t believe. You don’t get why we are in need of this – as a nation, humiliated by occupation, massacres, centuries of ethnic cleansing, robbing our nation of territories (we lost lands to Russia, Iran, Armenia thanks to the Games of the World Great Powers. Lack of support from the world powers, seeing how they are only interested on our oil and gas (another result of this is horrible pollution), lack of understanding in the West where our aspirations lie as we are not thrilled with the perspective of becoming an Islamic state, we need to BELIEVE in ourselves. That we will be able to achieve things. We are restoring our sense of national pride we were deprived of due to various reasons. We have had enough of criticism and humiliation. We want to hear good things for the good things that are happening in our country. We can no longer take self-bashing either we have been exalting ourselves in since forever. We want to say – we worth better things and we can achieve it. Our people need boost of self-confidence. So far what we have seen from the Russians that we are second sort and from the West – the politics of double standards, ignorance, lack of support and betrayal and selfish greedy materialism . We have seen how the West believed out of ignorance in everything Armenians told them back in 1980s and earlier (that we are Muslims, massacring Christians and that we are genetically incompatible – racist or what. BTW – genetic research showed we are genetically the closest people…_ When we saw how they were supported by the West all the years until supporting them became way too controversial – the justice is not on their side, it’s on ours, so the West is now playing blind, deaf, using standard phrases – the conflict can be resolved only peacefully, you have to compromise etc. Our land has been occupied. We have 1 million refugees. We have been patiently waiting and we offer the highest possible autonomy to Armenians within Azerbaijan territorial integrity – what other compromise they are talking about? We compromise but not resorting to our legal to restore the integrity by all means. We are committed to peace talks but after 20 years – sorry, that’s taking piss! When Azeris feel this indifference to our problem when they choose to continue addressing both sides – the aggressed and the aggressor, without making difference and saying you have to find peaceful means and all other standard phrases when all they have to do is to make an ultimatum to Armenia (coincidentally a Christian state???) like they did to iraq, Syria and other similar places and stop calling Azerbaijan for compromise in these generic phrases addressed to both sides when they have to be addressed only to Armenia, Azeris will not trust West and their democracy if that’s what it means! Democracy doesn’t have to discriminate in any way. Yet, on our case it surely and most certainly does. We are sick and tired. We have lost trust in the West not we have to trust in our own ability to do things so that we can resolve our problem sin the nearest future without anybody telling us what to do and how – not from the West anyway. Not until their bias is removed and they stand on the side of justice- our side as it’s been recognised by all International regulations however to no avail! For us everything is dependent on Karabakh occupation problem resolution and on West’s sincerity! Do you get it? In the meantime, we will do everything to believe in ourselves, to restore our national pride we have been robbed of.
I think you need to calm down and realize we are talking about a song contest here.
Is that all you could tell me? Listen. I will calm down when all or most my country’s problems are resolved, especially when the occupants will be kicked out. You must not taking anything in Azerbaijan out of context of the occupation, which is humiliating us immensely. You should really go learn some more about cross cultural understanding my country’s people are famous for (nobody can dispute our ethnic, cultural and religious tolerance and acceptance). You guys in the West have been spoilt rotten and fail to see other’s points of view. Your (not only yours personally) arrogance and ignorance stinks. People like you who have lived in insulation of their own culture and “democracy” fail to understand what’s good taste for others! I think thanks to your likes, this song contest has been turned into a political tool to intimidate and threaten others who “fall short” of your values. It’s people like you, not me who have turned this into a political thing. In the West you think you have a right to tell people how to live, how to do things? What gives you that right? Why do you think all your values are acceptable and important to others? Have you thought that others may actually have better values, such as respect, dignity, faithfulness, loyalty, patriotism? What we see increasingly in the West is to us are signs of rotting values. it’s the West who gave birth to racism, xenophobia, created crusades thinking they are supreme to others and have a right to teach them life. We don’t accept all your values. We have many of our values over yours. This unites Eastern and Southern Europe against the North and West in terms of values and understanding. What we have to be abel to do is to learn from each other to compensate for things that are lacking in us. We have lot to learn from you. You should realise you have lots to learn from us. You see, we will never be exactly like you. Why should we? How could we? Why do you demand it form us? Why not try to understand before criticising? We try to adapt all the values form the West that are good. For us the main lesson to learn from the West is how to eliminate corruption (if it’s possible. maybe it’s a cultural thing). Next for us to learn is technical professionalism and efficiency. You have to learn from us respect. For women, For elderly. For teachers. For children. For cultural values. For people’s senses and feelings. Learn how to learn about and accept other cultures. What you have done in Europe with Muslims and other immigrants is pathetic. You have gone into an extreme that the local population, the aboriginal Europeans increasingly cannot tolerate the immigrants. Racism is on increase, religious tension. You have allowed those who are unable to integrate into your culture now you are thinking what to do with covered women, bearded men,mosque prayer calls, Indians in national clothes. You should reconsider your family values. First because your morals have gone down the drain many decades ago. Second because you stopped reproducing. Your population shrinks giving way to fast increasing Asian and Muslim population. You are unable to accept them as they are, unable to stop fall of morals and drinking issues. You are unable to stop population from shrinking and angry at scape goats for all your failures. In Azerbaijan we don’t practice 100% free market economy because the recent financial events have shown it doesn’t really work, isn’t sustainable. You no longer have free market economy when governments have to keep bailing financial institutions our of disaster. Our government at the beginning said that they will monitor all the models and take the best from them, avoiding the pitfalls they have got into. So far we are achieving it successfully. While Europe is tumbling down into a disaster more and more every day, falling victim of few countries’ superiority. So right now we don;t see Europe as an authority to tell us what and how we should do. We will try to take the best practices and values form you, not forgetting ours and ensuring we avoid the common pitfalls. And your conspiracy theories about Azerbaijan are just sickening. Some of you even claimed there was no terrorist threat during ESC2012 and our government has invented it all for a PR and cover up. Yeah! Right! That;s why Interpol Chief was in Baku during the song contest and Hillary Clinton as well as EK President and others have rushed into our region short after the event… Again and again I invite you all to my country to try to see everything for yourselves, to make a realistic and reasonable picture of my country and people. Sitting behind your PCs and cowardly criticising left, right and centre is a bad taste!
I meant not EK EU president
Reading your comments is like reading the statement of the Azeri government spokesperson.
Just sad
don’t be sad for me. I am sad for you that seems peopel in the West or other places have little to no reason to be patriotic
I am a common citizen of Azerbaijan (educated though and have seent he world, have strong viewpoints and know history from ancient times of not only my country but of most others). So you can see that my opinion reflectes the opinion of the many Azeris like me and that Azeris at large actually support the government line and those who make noise are utter and unsupported, unsympathised minority!
“I am sad for you that seems peopel in the West or other places have little to no reason to be patriotic…”
What makes you even think that I want to be “patriotic”?!!! and certainly not the way in which you perceive the concept of patriotism. My motto is: “You go to bed as a patriot, you wake up the next morning a nationalist fascist”. So, spare the lecture, you are dealing with the wrong person here.
“”So you can see that my opinion reflectes the opinion of the many Azeris like me and that Azeris at large actually support the government line and those who make noise are utter and unsupported, unsympathised minority!
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Thank you for showing how desrespectful you are when it comes tofreedom of speech and minority. Someone has to tell you that: in a democracy, the opinion of the minority is sacred.
Need to add that İ’m not saying İ fully support everything about our government, not at all. Please don’t get any wrong impression. But it is MY prerogative to criticise them or not, and the Azeri citizens’, not anyone else’s! When we ask for advice, then give us your views and it will up to us to decide if we accept them or not. Nobody has a right to interfere in internal affairs of a foreign country. We don’t interfere in other states’ affairs and this is our line of external politics. We want others to know about it and to choose the same line with regards to us, for balance. There is lots of things we can criticise about Western governments, but we choose not to, to be friends with everyone. This line will continue, We cannot afford otherwise. we criticise things in our country our own way, internally. We don’t like washing dirty linen in public, I think I told about this earlier in this forum. We will accept some degree of criticism and advise but not more from others. Later it may change, when we are more secure and when we see balanced views form others, but not yet. I wish many things were better in my country better and faster. But my wish is just that. There are some real processes out there which rule the events. I can only, as a patriot support all the good things happening in my country and discuss, wish for more improvements.
Also, another reason for you not to be sad about me is because probably I live 100 times better than you. All thanks to the opportunities my country created for me and allowed me to get education and freedom of travel that allowed me to prosper, using my skills. This was not possible in Soviet times. Guess this is why I’m so supportive of that government. I have a 3000 sq feet superb apartment overlooking the Baku Bay, the Crystal Hall, The Flag Square, The Flame Towers. The building has all the infrastructure equal in Western world. I have two more properties in Azerbaijan and one in England. It is also shared property with my husband. Together we were able to acquire this thanks to the conditions created in my country. This is why we are now applying for my children’s and husband’s Azeri citizenship – we recon Azerbaijan will be probably a better place for us to be in the nearest future, vs England. This is thanks to the opportunities and freedoms my government has created and that’s why me and people like me (increasingly as middle class grows in Azerbaijan) support Ali Hasanov. They create stability for us and conditions. These opportunities are open to everybody in Azerbaijan who will invest time into education (my education was free, because I studied I did not have to pay bribes to get grades). Those who rant about situation in Azerbaijan are those who were unable to catch the wind of change in time. They are ranting because they think everything should be easy for them like their parents told them. or like they experienced in Soviet times. They have no culture of public protest as it was not allowed in USSR, so it comes out ugly. The parents who also missed the train and failed to raise their children ready for capitalism where everyone has to fight for their right under the sun and not expect the government to do things for them like in USSR times, including life important decisions. These people and their parents cannot make decisions for themselves so they blame everything on those who they sincerely believe ought to – the government. Ver unreasonable expectation but expected in transitional period. With time people will learn to stop blaming the government, the President and look inside themselves, to see what they can do to improve the situation! They have to stop this parasitic life style. They have to wake up to reality – Communism/ Socialism days are GONE! Now only the strongest survives. it’s a tough going but it will improve with time as it did in the West with time! They have to understand it and you guys, too! I hope I was able to convey my message. If not ,still, then I will have to shrug shoulders and continue liquidation of ignorance about my country and in general
Look! Azeris are not easily turning into nationalists. We are a tolerant culture. Please read up, do research. Some things are not tolerated, but we have cultural, religious, ethnic tolerance which means we cannot be nationalistic. Pls spare your lectures for such nations like Armenians. With Azeris it’s a total wrong address! Russians feel most comfortable outside Russia in Azerbaijan. Jews have never faced anti-semitism in our country. We have many different nations and ethnic groups and everybody lives together, not in ethnic quarters like in other countries. And I’m not disrespectful to anyone but I do not support certain technique used by some of our people. They are the ones who show disrespect, and you. Their human rights start where mine end. They are minority. They have to learn more appropriate ways of expressing their opinions, more effective methods of negotiation and know that the most painful problem for us is the problem of 1 million refugees, occupied lands which need to be addressed first. Economy is next. Infrastructure. Social protection. Democracy therefore will develop slower and they have to realise that. By the time all these are implemented, maybe they will have nothing to protest about?
Once again your comments prove what I’ve said to you before; that you sound like a broken record that simply repeats the government’s propaganda. According to my personal beliefs and values, that is simply pathetic. We obviously see things differently: Personally I prefer being critic to the government (to ANY government or power that is) instead of kissing their ass (sorry for my language). On the other hand, you obviously feel proud of echoeing the regime’s point of view. Fair enough. End of story.
But I’m not European and I live in a third world country…xD. (And we’re actually the most equal country thanks to the last gender law.)
Ah, and 80% of the population is atheist.
You should ask before assuming hahaha.
Well. Good for you. Azerbaijan is 95% atheist and with time we will have equal gender equality. Shall I ask you how long your country was independent before I remind that we came out of ruins of USSR just 20 years ago? BTW, if you were sincere you would tell me there and then which country youa re from. As you did not and continued the puzzle game with me I presume you were not sinsere in telling me I shoudl have asked first. Also, I guess Iearned from some guys here (not trying to generalise) who without asking or doing further research had labelled my country with unattractive names. Walk yout talk, please.
Argentina.
You should stop with the ruins of the ussr excuse.
Many countries come from the “ruins of the ussr” and are doing just fine.