Eurovision 2009: LRT offers mediation to save Georgia
According to Oikotimes, The head of LRT Audrius Siaurusevičius is going to request EBU for more information about Georgian disqualification.
'In Lithuanian folk songs word putinas (a kind of bush called viburnum) is very popular and let's say we send a song with that word in it... Would we also be disqualified? Are the words following each other and sounding similar to any famous person also counted as insulting? I really do not understand this decision by EBU. The play of words, especially in the cultural context, cannot be an excuse for this kind of behavious', says the head of LRT.
He also adds that this decision makes Eurovision even more political.
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'In Lithuanian folk songs word putinas (a kind of bush called viburnum) is very popular and let's say we send a song with that word in it... Would we also be disqualified? Are the words following each other and sounding similar to any famous person also counted as insulting? I really do not understand this decision by EBU. The play of words, especially in the cultural context, cannot be an excuse for this kind of behavious', says the head of LRT.
He also adds that this decision makes Eurovision even more political.
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