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.

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