"The Administration Is In Shock, And People Are On Edge."

Audience members at Dima Bilan's concert in Minsk complained about the "strange goings-on" regarding the seats.

On November 13, a concert by Russian singer Dima Bilan took place at Minsk Arena. For unknown reasons, more people showed up for some sections than the venue could accommodate. Audience members who faced this problem shared their stories on Threads, according to "Zerkalo".

A user named Yulia said that in August she bought three tickets for the November concert.

“We arrived at Minsk Arena—and there were girls sitting in our seats with the exact same tickets, but ones they’d bought at the arena box office with a receipt,” she said. “We went to sort it out, and it turned out there were more than ten of us in the same situation! They asked us for a receipt, suspecting we’d bought the tickets from scalpers, but we’d purchased them ourselves on the website. In the end, the whole ordeal took a full hour. It’s a good thing we arrived early!”

She thanked the staff at “Minsk Arena” who helped find us other seats. As for the “Ticketpro” ticket operator, she said she still had “a lot of questions” for them.

A Threads user with the handle imbgch reported that seats were “duplicated” for spectators in rows 15–17 of Sector K in Stand B.

“The administration is in shock, people are on edge—including us. Fortunately, there were empty seats, and everyone who arrived later was seated, but there were people who were determined to cause a scene. Expect a storm of outrage,” she wrote.

“I bought two tickets for seats next to each other, but it turned out they were one seat apart. The same thing happened in the row below,” Pavel added.

Users shared other instances of ticket sales mix-ups in the comments.

“I was once at a Fadeev concert at Minsk Arena—I also saw people coming to take their seats, only to find others already sitting there. In the end, they approached the arena staff, who carefully examined the tickets and then chatted about something over the walkie-talkie. And they seated the people in a different section,” Veronika recalled.

Representatives of the ticketing operator have not yet commented on the posts by dissatisfied spectators.

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