I almost cut off Bilan's fingers with skates. How Plushenko helped Russia win Eurovision.

I almost cut off Bilan's fingers with skates. How Plushenko helped Russia win Eurovision.

On Saturday, May 22, Rotterdam will host the 2021 Eurovision final. According to the results of the first semifinal, the representative of Russia Manizha with the song "Russian Woman" was selected there. All in all, on May 22, 26 countries will participate in the competition - the host is Holland, the "Big Five" (founders of the competition) - Germany, Italy, Spain, France and Great Britain - and 20 more contestants who have reached the final according to the super league results of the qualifying rounds. What does Eurovision and sports have to do with it? Russia won here only once - in 2008, singer Dima Bilan won. Since then, the Russians have been in the improvised top three four times, but did not receive the first place. Bilan was not alone in winning the victory in Belgrade - the Hungarian violinist Edwin Marton and Evgeni Plushenko performed with him on the stage. We will tell you how it happened that the Olympic figure skating champion ended up in the song competition and why his performance can be considered unique.