The budget of Jurmala resort city on the shores of the Baltic sea will lose eventually moving international song contest " New wave " on the black sea coast of 17 million euros, said Last news member of the Presidium of the Saeima of Latvia Andrey Klementyev.

As said on the first day of the week the Governor of Krasnodar region Alexander Tkachev, the festival " New wave " moves in Sochi.

" Unfortunately, It happened. Jurmala will lose 17 million euros, which makes that process, and advertisements, this contest has made our city-resort. This is a serious loss, and I hope that the lessons here, in Latvia, will be extracted. It is important that After the competition of Jurmala has not left such Russian festivals As " wailing Kivinen ", " yurmalina " and Comedy club, " said Klementyev.

the contest of young singers " New wave " with participation of stars of the Russian and foreign music since 2002 was held in Jurmala in July. Last year, yesterday the opening contest of the Latvian foreign Ministry has included in the " black list " of banned in the country of singers Joseph Kobzon, Oleg Gazmanov and singer Valery in connection with their statements about the events in Ukraine and the position on the annexation of Crimea To Russia.

version that the festival will be held in Sochi, many times expressed in a number of Russian media. The Governor of Kuban confirmed these data on the first day of the week, speaking at the event dedicated to the Day of public Prosecutor. Town Council until has no information on the transfer of competition from Jurmala in Sochi.

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