Russia
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participated in and hosted the
Eurovision Song Contest 2009
The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the 54th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Moscow, Russia, following the country's victory at the with the song "Believe (Dima Bilan song), Believe" by Dima Bilan. Organised by the Euro ...
in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
after winning the
Eurovision Song Contest 2008
The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Belgrade, Serbia, following the country's victory at the with the song "Molitva" by Marija Šerifović. Organised by the European Broadcas ...
with the song "
Believe
Believe may refer to:
*Belief, a psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true, with or without proof for such proposition
*Faith, a belief in something which has not been proven
Arts, entertainment, and me ...
" performed by
Dima Bilan
Dima Nikolayevich Bilan (russian: Ди́ма Никола́евич Била́н; born Viktor Nikolayevich Belan, russian: Ви́ктор Никола́евич Бела́н, links=no; 24 December 1981) is a Russian singer, songwriter and acto ...
. The Russian entry was selected through a national final, organised by the Russian broadcaster
Channel One Russia
Channel One ( rus, Первый канал, r=Pervyy kanal, p=ˈpʲervɨj kɐˈnal, t=First Channel) is a Russian state-controlled television channel. It is the first television channel to broadcast in the Russian Federation. Its headquarters ...
(C1R).
Anastasia Prikhodko
Anastasia Kostyantynivna Prikhodko ( uk, Анастасія Костянтинівна Приходько, Anastasiya Kostyantynivna Prykhodko; born 21 April 1987) is a Ukrainian activist, politician and former singer-songwriter. Known for her ...
represented Russia with the song "Mamo", which scored 91 points in the final and finished in 11th place.
Before Eurovision
Evrovidenie 2009 - Nacionalny Otbor
''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
Ostankino Television Technical Center (russian: Телевизионный технический центр Оста́нкиноMoscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
and hosted by
Andrey Malakhov
Andrey Nikolayevich Malakhov (russian: Андре́й Никола́евич Мала́хов; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian television personality and presenter on the main Russian television channel, Russia-1.
Biography
Born on 11 Januar ...
and
Yana Churikova
Yana Alekseyevna Churikova (russian: Яна Алексеевна Чурикова; born 6 November 1978) is a Russian journalist and television host who worked on MTV Russia before moving to Channel One, where she hosted seven seasons of the '' ...
with Dmitry Shepelev hosting segments from the green room. Sixteen artists and songs participated and the winner was selected through a jury and a public televote. The show was broadcast on
Channel One as well as online via the broadcaster's website ''eurovision.1tv.ru''.
Competing entries
In November 2008, C1R announced a submission period for interested artists and composers to submit their entries. The initial format of the national final consisted of three stages: the first stage to select the song, the second stage to select three artists and the third stage to select the winning artist and song combination. The format was later amended by C1R where artists would compete with the songs they have submitted with. The broadcaster received over 1,000 submissions at the conclusion of the deadline. 50 entries were shortlisted from the received submissions and a jury panel selected the fifteen finalists for the national final. The competing acts were announced on 26 February 2009.
Following the announcement of the competing acts, it was revealed that four of the selected artists: Kvatro, Polina Griffith, Tim Rocks and Venger Collective, have submitted songs in violation of the 2009 contest rules, of which they were either publicly performed or released commercially before 1 October 2008. Kvatro and Polina Griffith changed their respective songs while Tim Rocks and Venger Collective remained with ineligible songs. On 5 March 2009, C1R announced that
Anastasia Prikhodko
Anastasia Kostyantynivna Prikhodko ( uk, Анастасія Костянтинівна Приходько, Anastasiya Kostyantynivna Prykhodko; born 21 April 1987) is a Ukrainian activist, politician and former singer-songwriter. Known for her ...
would also participate in the national final with the song "Mamo" as a protest against her elimination from the
2009 Ukrainian Eurovision national final due to rule violations.
Final
The final took place on 7 March 2009. Sixteen entries competed and the winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, a public televote exclusively selected the top three entries to proceed to the second round, the superfinal. In the superfinal, the winner, "Mamo" performed by Anastasia Prikhodko, was determined through the votes of a jury panel. The jury consisted of Alexander Barannikov (secretary of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 organising committee), Dzhohan Pollyeva (head of the Council for Humanitarian Cooperation of CIS countries), and television and music producers Yuriy Aksyuta,
Kim Breitburg
Kim Alexandrovich Breitburg (russian: link=no, Ким Александрович Брейтбург, 10 February 1955, Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Russian composer, singer, keyboardist, author of more than 600 songs, 5 art rock suites and ...
,
Alexander Dulov
Alexander Andreevich Dulov ( rus, Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Ду́лов, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐnˈdrʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈduləf, a=Alyeksandr Andryeyevich Dulov.ru.vorb.oga; May 15, 1931, Moscow — November 15, 2007) was a Soviet and R ...
,
Igor Krutoy
Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy (russian: Игорь Яковлевич Крутой) or Ihor Yakovych Krutyi ( uk, Ігор Якович Крутий, born on July 29, 1954), is a Ukrainian and Russian music composer, performer, producer and musical p ...
, Alexander Lunyov,
Vladimir Matetsky
Vladimir Leonardovich Matetsky (russian: link=no, Владимир Леонардович Матецкий; born May 14, 1952, in Moscow) is a Russian and Soviet composer, producer, and radio presenter. Matetsky is a member of the Russian Authors ...
, Ruben Oganesov, Larisa Sinelschikova and
Maxim Fadeev
Maxim "Max" Aleksandrovich Fadeev (russian: link=no, Макси́м Алекса́ндрович Фаде́ев) (born 6 May 1968) is a Russian singer-songwriter, composer and producer.
Biography Early life and career
Maxim Fadeev was born on ...
. In addition to the performances of the competing entries,
Eurovision Song Contest 2008
The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Belgrade, Serbia, following the country's victory at the with the song "Molitva" by Marija Šerifović. Organised by the European Broadcas ...
winner
Dima Bilan
Dima Nikolayevich Bilan (russian: Ди́ма Никола́евич Била́н; born Viktor Nikolayevich Belan, russian: Ви́ктор Никола́евич Бела́н, links=no; 24 December 1981) is a Russian singer, songwriter and acto ...
,
2000 Russian Eurovision entrant Alsou
Alsou Ralifovna Abramova ( rus, Алсу́ Рали́фовна Абра́мова; tt-Cyrl, Алсу Рәлиф кызы Абрамова; ; born 27 June 1983), better known as just Alsou, is a Russian singer and actress. She represented Russi ...
,
2007 Russian Eurovision entrants Serebro
Serebro ( rus, Серебро, t=Silver, p=sʲɪrʲɪˈbro, a=ru-серебро.ogg; stylized as SEREBRO) was a Russian girl group formed by their manager and producer Maxim Fadeev. Serebro was formed in 2007, consisting of Marina Lizorkina, Ol ...
,
2009 Azerbaijani Eurovision entrants AySel and
Arash
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According to Iranian folklore, the boundary between Iran and Turan was set by an arrow launched by Arash, after he put his own ...
,
2009 French Eurovision entrant Patricia Kaas
Patricia Kaas (; born 5 December 1966) is a French singer. Her music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, and chanson.
Since the appearance of her 1988 debut album '' Mademoiselle chante...'', Kaas has sold over 17 million records worldwide. She h ...
,
2004
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Events January
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and
2009 Greek Eurovision entrant Sakis Rouvas
Anastasios "Sakis" Rouvas ( el, Αναστάσιος "Σάκης" Ρουβάς, ; born 5 January 1972), also known mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek singer, film and television actor, businessman and former pole vaulter and model. Born in Cor ...
, and
2009 British Eurovision entrant Jade Ewen
Jade Louise Ewen (born 24 January 1988) is a British singer, actress and a former member of the girl group Sugababes. She began her singing career in a girl group named Trinity Stone, which signed with Sony BMG in 2005 but disbanded in 2007 wit ...
performed as guests.
Controversy
Prikhodko's win sparked allegations of vote-rigging.
[ The song was first submitted, in a fully ]Ukrainian language
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version, for the 2009 Ukrainian preselection, but failed to qualify, before being submitted and eventually winning the Russian contest where it was performed in Russian
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*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
and Ukrainian. Valeriya's producer Yusif Prigozhin did not agree with the bilingual
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nature of Prikhodko's song stating: "A song performed in Ukrainian can’t have anything to do with Russia".
At Eurovision
As the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008
The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Belgrade, Serbia, following the country's victory at the with the song "Molitva" by Marija Šerifović. Organised by the European Broadcas ...
and host of the 2009 Contest, Russia automatically qualified for a place in the final, held on 16 May 2009. In addition to their participation in the final, Russia was assigned to vote in the second semi-final on 14 May 2009.
During the draw for running order on 16 March 2009, Russia was drawn to perform 10th in the final. In the final, Russia performed following Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...
and preceding Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
. The Russian performance featured Prikhodko in a white dress joined by five backing vocalists dressed in costumes with ethnic elements. The various screens of the stage displayed Prikhodko's face being progressively aged while singing the lyrics of the song. Russia placed 11th in the final, scoring 91 points. On 31 July 2009, the European Broadcasting Union
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; french: Union européenne de radio-télévision, links=no, UER) is an alliance of Public broadcasting, public service media organisations whose countries are within the European Broadcasting Area or who ar ...
released the split results for the final.
In Russia, both the semi-finals and the final were broadcast on Channel One Russia
Channel One ( rus, Первый канал, r=Pervyy kanal, p=ˈpʲervɨj kɐˈnal, t=First Channel) is a Russian state-controlled television channel. It is the first television channel to broadcast in the Russian Federation. Its headquarters ...
, with commentary provided by Yana Churikova
Yana Alekseyevna Churikova (russian: Яна Алексеевна Чурикова; born 6 November 1978) is a Russian journalist and television host who worked on MTV Russia before moving to Channel One, where she hosted seven seasons of the '' ...
for all shows, Aleksey Manuylov for the semi-finals and Philipp Kirkorov
Philipp Bedrosovich Kirkorov PAR (russian: Филипп Бедросович Киркоров; bg, Филип Бедросов Киркоров, Filip Bedrosov Kirkorov; born 30 April 1967) is a Bulgarian-born Russian pop singer. He is a five ...
for the final. The voting spokesperson for Russia was Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (russian: Ингеборга Дапкунайте; born 20 January 1963) is а Lithuanian theatre and cinema actress, who appears mostly in Russian films. She is a winner of the Nika Award in 1994 for Best Actress.
Early ...
.
Voting
Points awarded to Russia
Points awarded by Russia
Detailed voting results
For the 2009 Contest, a national jury of five members was assembled by every country in order to provide 50% of the votes in the final of the competition in combination with the results of the televoting. Russia's votes in the second semi-final were determined solely from the result of the public televote. The following members comprised the Russian jury:
* Igor Matvienko
Igor Igorevich Matvienko (russian: Игорь Игоревич Матвиенко; born February 6, 1960, in Moscow, RSFSR) is a Soviet and Russian producer, composer, founder of the bands Lyube, Ivanushki International, Korni, Fabrika, KuBa. ...
– producer
* Youddiph
Maria Lvovna "Masha" Katz (russian: Мари́я Льво́вна "Ма́ша" Кац; born 23 January 1973), also known by her stage name Youddiph (russian: Юди́фь, lit=Judith), is a Russian singer. She is best known for representing Russ ...
– singer, represented Russia in the 1994 contest
* Tamara Gverdtsiteli
Tamara Mikhailovna Gverdtsiteli ( ka, თამარ გვერდწითელი}, russian: Тамара Михайловна Гвердцители; born 18 January 1962) is a Georgian-Russian singer and actress.
Early life and educati ...
– singer
* Alexander Lunev – composer
* Elena Kiper
Nichya (Ничья in Russian Cyrillic; translates as "No one's"), is a singing, songwriting and producing duet consisting of Elena Kiper and Oleg Borschevsky. The group has released four singles, and one album to date, and has gained much popu ...
– producer
References
External links
Channel One official Eurovision website
{{Eurovision Song Contest 2009
2009
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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...