26 January: Azerbaijan-based Media FM radio has banned songs in French and performed by French singers. The director of the station Tural Aliyev said that "the ban would be effective till the repeal of the French Senate’s draft law criminalising the

The radio station announced in April, 2009 that they will ban Turkish singers in case of the opening of Turkish – Armenian borders. Commenting on this issue, the director of radio station said that in that time and this time they made this decision as a sign of fraternal relations with Turkey: “At that time we were expecting a gesture of fraternity from Turkey and how fortunate that we saw it. Now it is our duty to show a gesture of fraternity

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