Violin and Ice
In sports and pop music, Russia is winning.
Brilliant performance in the Eurovision Song Contest by singer Dima Bilan got him the victory Russia has been waiting for too long. It followed a series of sports victories that have fed the resurgent country’s increasing self-confidence.
President Dmitry Medvedev reached Bilan on a mobile phone in the middle of the night to congratulate him.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is former President of the country sent him text message saying it was “one more important triumph for all of Russia,” officials said.
In Belgrade, Serbia, Bilan performed along with Evgeni Plushenko, the Olympic champion figure skater who helped by pirouetting on ice. Plushenko is also a politician. He said:
Russia is the favorite now, it’s just tearing everybody up — in basketball, football, hockey, and Eurovision!”
Dima has worked with such people as Timbaland and his brother, together they created song called ‘Number One Fan’.
Singer is posing for russian Playgirl magazine. Naughty!
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May 26th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
I don’t watch the contest anymore so I can’t say if it is a good song or not but I stopped watching because a few years ago it just became a popularity contest amongst the countries and nothing to do with the music. Friends voting for friends, bitter rivalries coming out, they stopped voting for the music, in my humble opinion.