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Evrovidenie 2009 - Nacionalny Otbor was the fifth edition of Evrovidenie, the music competition that selects Russia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.The show took place on 7 March 2009 at Studio 1 of Ostankino Technical Center in Moscow and hosted by Andrey Malakhov and Yana Churikova with Dmitry Shepelev hosting segments from the green room. [3]
Eurovision Song Contest: Moscow 2009 was the official compilation album of the 2009 contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by EMI Records and CMC International on 11 May 2009. The album featured all 42 songs that entered in the 2009 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final.
Russia won their first and so far only contest in 2008, when Dima Bilan, participating for the second time in the contest, won with the song "Believe", bringing the contest to Russia for 2009. Russia was the most successful country in Eurovision between 2000 and 2009, with one win, two-second places, and two third places.
The Russian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 was internally selected by an expert committee of C1R. Among acts rumoured by several Russian media sites to be considered by the broadcaster were Aleksandr Panayotov, Darya Antonyuk, Elena Temnikova [a], Soprano Turetskovo, Nargiz Zakirova, Nyusha [b] and Julia Samoylova, [2] the latter was ultimately shortlisted along with Antonyuk.
Drapeko suggested banning Manizha from performing in Eurovision under the Russian flag, commenting also that Eurovision offered no cultural value and was too politicized and pro-LGBT. [71] The entry still went on to represent the nation at the contest in Rotterdam , Netherlands , and in the final Manizha reached 9th place with 204 points, [ 72 ...
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