ARMENIA COMES SECOND AT JUNIOR EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 10, ARMENPRESS:Armenia has scored the second highest average of points of a runner-up with 8.50 at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Rotterdam, Netherlands Saturday, which saw Belarus winning for the second time with Alexey Zhigalkovich and his song S druzyami. Armenia is also the most successful debuting country ever reaching second place The other debutants Georgia and Bulgaria also did quite well finishing fourth and seventh respectively while Lithuania finished only 13th. Countries that have achieved their best results so far are Serbia and F.Y.R. Macedonia while Greece, Portugal and Belgium have reached their worst placings so far. Belarus has received points from all countries but Cyprus, all the other countries gave at least four points and four times the twelve points. The runner-ups from Armenia were obviously polarizing: they received seven times the twelve, twice the ten, once eight, seven and five - and four times not a single vote. Although with 17 countries competing it is very likely that a country receives points from all countries (since every country has to give points to ten out of 16 other countries), only Russia and Serbia managed to do so – they finished third and sixth respectively.