New Wave Junior 2017: Armenian, Russian participants share top prize

Junior singers from Armenia and Russia have been named winners of the New Wave Junior 2017 song contest, RIA Novosti reports.

Anahit Adamyan and Arina Petrova shared the top award at the annual event held in Crimea, Russia. Russia.

The final round featured 11 participants (Armenia, Russia, Belaruis, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Moldova, France, Kazakhstan and Abkhazia).

Tali Kupi from Israel won the second prize; Russia's Yevgeny Botsov came in the third. The Kazakh participant, Amina Zhapar, won the Audience Sympathy award.

Adamyan, 13, studies at the Igor Krutoy Academy if Popular Music.  At the Junior Eurovision 2016 Song Contest in Valletta, Malta, she was named the winner of the second prize.