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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Bloggers are bribed to write about "bribe"?

This year's Eurovision Song Contest continues with its controversies. Now, reports arrive from various Russian-language bloggers (also here & here) that an Armenian guy with an email aram13240@gmail.com writes letters to established bloggers in Russian-language blogosphere with an offer to post an article about how Azerbaijan "bribed" Belorussian and Lithuanian voters to vote for its Eurovision entry (AySel & Arash):

The text of the letter as it is reported in Alex Exler's blog:
Плачу $100 когда разместиш мою статью про то как Азербайджан подкупал голосование на Евровидении в Беларуси и Литве. И друганам своим передай, всем плачу. Это все сто проц. достоверные факты. Тока выложить нужно это все быстро. Писал професионал так что не сцы ошибок нет. 
Пиши на aram13240@gmail.com. Сброшу текст и $20 задатку. А $80 когда уже будет размещена.

[Translation: I'll pay $100 after you post my article about how Azerbaijan bought the voting in Eurovision in Belarus and Lithuania. And forward this offer to your friends, I'll pay them all. It is 100 percent real facts. But you should post it as soon as possible. It is written by a professional, thus, don't be timid, there are no mistakes. Write to aram13240@gmail.com. I'll send you text and $20 in advance. $80 dollars after posting.]

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm sure everyone knows the meaning of the word 'bullsh!t'. in this case equivalent to scam (next layer of).

Kevork Oskanian said...

The Russians have a wonderful word for this...."provokatsiya".

Armenians bribing Russians to say they were bribed by Azeris? Maybe these Armenians were bribed by Azeris to bribe Russians to say they were bribed by Azeris in the first place? ;)

LIVLIVS MAXIMVS said...

I don't know, it can be as well as a spam, if not some people claim in their comments that email is real and it sends text and 20 dollars in advance. That is why I used a question mark - the whole fact should be investigated by journalists maybe.

Kevork Oskanian said...

Come on. In 'Old' Europe, Eurovision is seen as a JOKE. I can't believe people in the Caucasus take it so seriously. I'm not going to lie awake at night thinking about bribes, if anyone is so stupid to do that, let him waste his money. Oh, we're so badly in need of a sense of humour.

LIVLIVS MAXIMVS said...

It is indeed a joke, but a bad joke in Eastern Europe :) I am amazed how Eurovision unites Serbs and Croats and Bosnian Muslims, but continues to divide Azeris and Armenians...