Armenian bloggers criticized Tashir 2011 Armenian Music Awards ceremony held at Moscow’s State Kremlin Palace on April 3, labeling it as a “shoddy ceremony” and “complete fiasco.”
It is noteworthy that live broadcasting of the ceremony by Armenia TV channel was interrupted, since host of the ceremony Garik Martirosyan decided to tell a joke, in which Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was mentioned.
Armenia TV channel interrupted the ceremony in the middle of the joke and started broadcasting a piece of television series, what has caused indignation of audience.
Besides, bloggers strictly criticized the “benevolence” of President of Tashir group of companies Samvel Karapetyan, who presented Armenian and foreign singers, artists, showmen and socialites with apartments in Moscow and Yerevan. Specifically, the fact that Russia’s “It girl” Kseniya Sobchak was presented with an apartment in Yerevan was considered by bloggers to be unacceptable.
