The List of Officially Concerned about the results of the Eurovision song contest is growing –  alphabetically that would be Ilham Aliyev, Alexander Lukashenko, Sergey Lavrov…

Who paid whom for what & who should have voted differently…”why? because!” – read also on RFE/RL: Eurovision Vote Theft Claims Roil Russia, Azerbaijan.

And the famous Azerbaijani song before it fades away from the memory of avid Eurovision fans:

Belarus Digest tackles the issue of perceiving the Belarusian higher education system (within the country as well as “outside”…):

How Belarusian Is The Belarusian University In Exile?
Four Western Myths About Belarusian Higher Education

Read also: Bologna Process And The Last Outsider in Europe

After the Krakow meeting of foreign ministers from V4 & EaP countries:

“If Ukraine and the EU do not sign the agreement, what is Plan B?”
There is no Plan B, answer Adam Reichardt & Giacomo Manca on New Eastern Europe.

Meanwhile, “Alexei Pushkov, head of the Russian State Duma’s International Affairs Committee, has said he is skeptical about the prospects for the signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement”. (Interfax)

Aşıq Nargile, an ethnic Azeri Ashiq, performs ”Borçalı Poem”:

Learn more about the The Sayat Nova Project & the traditional music of the Caucasus.

Photo gallery by Onnik Krikorian

OSCE: the final report on the Presidential election Armenia, February 2013

&

(for desserts):

END OF THE CAROUSEL. Hardly fought election for Yerevan City Council consolidates President Sargsyan’s hold on power

by the Caucasus Elections Watch

I’m for East! 2. Festival, 10-12 May, Poznań, Poland: