Saint Petersburg Parliament has opposed holding the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in the city.
Deputies have addressed the Governor Valentina Matvienko with the request to reject the offer about St. Petersburg hosting the popular international contest next year. The authors of the request apprehend that holding the Eurovision festival will be conducive to use of drugs.
According to opinion of experts the Western music styles that are promoted at Eurovision demoralize our youth and provoke drug abuse – the communication reads.
According to information of law enforcement agencies, in the contest venues in various countries the amount of imported narcotics goes up three times. Foreign guests who come to the contest are often reputed as drug addicts and have police records the initiators of the report point out.
Instead of Eurovision they suggest holding the festival of modern Orthodox spiritual song Neva Cupolas in Saint Petersburg.
