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Russia: Dima Bilan in Athens
During the afternoon TV show, an unexpected surprise awaited Dima at the studio of STAR Channel: his Greek Fan Club welcomed him with flowers and cameras. Dima performed his 2006 entry Never let you go, this year's entry Believe as well as the Spanish version of the song. Moreover, Bilan took the opportunity to demonstrate his vocal abilities and sang a piece of a classical opera.
Following the scheduled plan, Bilan, escorted by our very own editor Anna Krasilnikova, visited the Greek musical channel MAD in a live show and radio programme, where he spoke about his plans after the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. A three piece construction full of dry ice will be set on stage in 30 seconds flat.
" I have many plans and many ideas in my head", said Dima Bilan. "And that's what I will be doing after".
Bilan also revealed some secrets regarding the stage performance and what we are expecting to see in Belgrade. "It will be the first time in the Eurovision history when the stage will be partially covered with ice", said Dima. "We are working on it hard, to be able to construct the ice for the famous athlete Evgeniy Pluschenko who is also my friend and will be with me on stage in Belgrade. Also there will be Edvin Marton playing a Stradivarius violin".
Apart from Olympic figure skater Evgeny Pluschenko and Hungarian violinist Edvin Marton, there will be two backing singers and one dancer. The three performers, will attempt to tell the European audience how to be strong and never stop going after their dreams.
Dima speaks to esctoday.com
Creer, Spanish version of Believe
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his spanish is better than his english for sure, but some lines im like WHAT IS HE SAYING?!
they need to get rid of the violins, i dont know why they added them in the first place
Very, very good sings in Spanish,,
standart eurovision song
Really not getting the hype about this one... cheap song with mediocre vocals at best. Would like to see Moscow hosting the show but it won't be in 2009.
@Liana Sargsyan
Thank you Liana.
I think like that.
I am Spanish and I am ashamed about the representative of Spain.
Go Moscow 2009!!!!!!!!!!
Dima Gorgeus!!!!!!!!!
Good luck to Armenia too, I like Shiruso & Qele Qele song
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I followed your links and Sweden is leading in both as usuall hehehehe go go "Hero" 
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I'd really mind Russia winning this time. The song is a bore and he can't speak English. Can't believe that so many people think that it doesn't matter.
victor martinez
You are right 100% !
BOOO CHIKI CHIKI !!!
Go Moscow 2009 !!!
@ Elvis Lives
The only one circus will be Spain with Chiki Chiki
Rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!
Moscow 2009!!!!!!!!!!
Dima Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
spanish version?
more like fucking chinese to me.
OMG... I could not stop laughing when I watched his interview, HE CANT SPEAK ENGLISH.... it seems he remembers several words he taught at English classes at school and that's all 
)being from Russia I feel shame.... however, should wish him good luck in Belgrade since I want my country to win
Today except of Dima at Greece has arrived Sirusho(Armenia) and three or four days later Ani Lorak(Ukraine).....both girls are great and they seem to love Greece very much.
"Apart from Olympic figure skater Evgeny Pluschenko and Hungarian violinist Edvin Marton, there will be two backing singers and one dancer. .." Let´s see if I got it right: this Bilan guy said in Brussels that one of his back singer will an opera singer. Plus a violinist. Plus an ice skater. Plus one dancer. Plus a lousy singer. Hei, this is a freak circus! Who should the public pay attention to?
About little girls: some comments in here are truly revealing. Like that woman who listens to Believe so she can boost her self-belief. Hilarious! Or the guy who thinks that Pluschenko will attract votes. Hello, wake up! Is this Pluschenko guy going to sing, too? And what is viva creer?? So, anyone who is able to babble some Spanish will automatically get 12 points from Spain?? OMG, freedom of expression is a real wonderful thing.
His Spanish sucks, in my opinion. There are certain lines I hardly understand, even if Spanish is my mother language.
Was it an interview? He was repeating the same lines countless times: 'second time in Eurovision this, second time in Eurovision that'. Dear, if you have nothing interesting to say in an interview, what's the point? I am afraid his English vocabulary is rather limited. When you are not confident enough at talking in English is better to have a translator by your side. Just a suggestion.
Yes ok "girls and gays" will vote for Russia..... gays will vote for Sweden, Swizterland, Iceland and Malta then! 
MOSCOW OR ST PETERSURG OR VLADIVOSTOK 2009!
GO ROSSIJA!
well sorry for my mistakes..
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*a girl..
well come on...! for some people it's difficult to tlak in english..
so he doesn't know english pretty ggood so what..??
and you're wornd about the girls...! many people like my mother who is not the girl love this song..! and many other.. watch the clip..! is really stunning..!
the spanish version is good too..! really good..!
and..! listen to his song..! it really sends a message and a very important message.!
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Like I said, he should sing the Spanish version in Belgrade.
Well, I'll probably vote for him either way. And I'm not a little girl, constantinos. 
only girls and gays will vote for Dima.
which means Russia will *unfortunately* win.
i think that the only reason he might win is if all the little [b]stupid[/b] [i](in my opinion)[/i] girls will vote for him... his song isn't anything special... there are so many better songs like the Serbian, the Greek and the Swedish one... and his English accent is terrible! if you haven't watched the Russian final, [b]believe me[/b][i](!!!)[/i] he killed the song! so many other countries deserve to win! but anyway...
This is really funny! His spanish is decent. By contrast, his english is hopeless. Maybe he should consider singing in russian or in spanish or in both.
Sorry Russia, I am not a big fan of your song 
But good luck anyway and Russia could even win! 
Sounds like a good show is being planned by Russia- I look forward to the spectacle. This is one reason to watch the ESC: glamour, stunts and stinks.
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