Finns stole Dima Bilan's number at Eurovision — video

Finnish duo violinist Linda Lampenius and singer Pete Parkkonen got into the final of Eurovision-2026. On stage, everything looks normal: vocals and violin, but something else attracted the attention of the audience.

The artists shared a "backstage number" on their social networks, where the same "skates" from the Russian version appeared in their performance — Dima Bilan's Believe performances at Eurovision 2008, where the violin and figure skating with Evgeni Plushenko became the central part of the show.

"True, the Finns don't have skates in the final version, but the fact remains that Russia has left the competition, and its stage style seems to have remained in the references of other countries forever. Is it a coincidence or was they inspired to steal it?" — the telegram channel writes about this "You can't say worse."