Ukraine and Russia have finally found some common ground, because none of their church officials are happy about one of Eurovision 2017's proposed venues.
So they're joining forces to complain about it.
The controversy kicked off last week when Ukraine announced that they would be holding the opening ceremony of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in the Saint Sophia complex, a well-known religious landmark in the capital Kiev.
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Ukraine won the right to host this year's contest after their 2016 representative Jamala stormed to victory with her song '1944'.
Eurovision organisers thought that since the complex's centerpiece cathedral is not currently in use as a church, holding the ceremony there would not insult religious feelings.
However, both Ukranian and Russian church officials have since slammed the idea.
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'This should not be done... it would be blasphemy,' Vasily Anisimov, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy, told the news agency RIA Novosti. 'On that site, a huge burial ground is located.'
And he was backed up by Andrei Kurayev, a deacon in the Russian Orthodox Church, who told Mosokovski Komsomolets he thought it was a 'very bad decision'.
But Eurovision bosses are standing firm.
'The St Sophia Cathedral Complex was chosen as a venue for the opening ceremony because it has all the requirements necessary for an event such as this in terms of its location, capacity and logistical needs,' a spokesman for the Eurovision Song Contest told Billboard.
Even so. The thought of dancing on top of one of Europe's oldest burial sites still gives us the heebies jeebies.
The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Kiev from May 9-13.
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