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More tickets for Eurovision-2012 to go on sale

16 April 2012 [17:16] - TODAY.AZ
Tickets sales for the remaining seats at Eurovision-2012 will begin at the ticket office this week. It was reported at a press conference dedicated to the contest on Monday.

Tickets will be sold at the ticket office of Heydar Aliyev Palace, Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, Muslim Magomayev Azerbaijan State Philharmonic, Azerbaijan Cinema, and in a booth at 68 Nizami St. near the Government House.

Preparations for the contest have already begun in Baku Cristal Hall. Public television anchorwoman Leyla Aliyeva, the winner of "Eurovision-2011" Eldar Gasimov and Nargis Birk-Petersen will host the show.

Accreditation of local and foreign journalists ends on April 20. Notification letters will be sent to all the journalists who have undergone the accreditation.

The construction of the press center is also completed. The center covers an area of ??two thousand square meters; all necessary conditions are created, said at a news conference.

"EuroClub" opens on May 13 and "EuroVillage" will work on May 19 - 26. The 57th Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Baku Crystal Hall which is under construction near the State Flag Square.

The Eurovision 2012 semi-final rounds will be held in Baku on May 22 and May 24 and the final on May 26.

The logo for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is 'Fire Flower', while the motto is Light your fire.

Azerbaijan won the right to host the prestigious European song contest after the victory of Eldar Gasimov and Nigar Jamal (Ell / Nikki) at Eurovision 2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany last May.


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