In this period , Arsenijević also wrote for other publications : his April 2012 commentary inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest about to be held in Baku , Azerbaijan was published in German daily '' die Tageszeitung '' as a guest column . In it , Arsenijević compares Azerbaijan to Serbia , on one hand finding differences " in their respective cultural , political and economic concepts " by describing the former as a " country getting richer by the day while being muzzled by a family dynasty in the making along with its own personal nouveau riche clique " while considering the latter to be a " land of perpetual economic ruin ruled by an unscrupulous and insatiable political class " , but on the other hand also noticing many similarities in what he sees as " both countries ' desperate search for a new , modern identity that 's in parallel accompanied by each country 's respective unwillingness , or maybe even inability , to let go of old ways , creative misuses of power , and historical and territorial obsessions " . He considers Azerbaijan and Serbia to both have " bad reputations in the international community " and views them both as being " well-known for widespread corruption that 's deeply embedded in every pore of their societies " . He further sees a similarity in how both countries handle their territorial disputes by " ' defending ' their disputed areas , Nagorno-Karabakh and Kosovo , respectively , in bloody wars that they later lose along with the disputed territory "
Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Vladimir Arsenijević