Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

Russia participated at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, held in Oslo, Norway in May 2010, and was represented by broadcaster Russia 1.

Eurovision Song Contest 2010
Country Russia
National selection
Selection processEvrovidenie 2010
Selection date(s)7 March 2010
Selected entrantPeter Nalitch
Selected song"Lost and Forgotten"
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (7th, 74 points)
Final result11th, 90 points
Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Peter Nalitch in 2008

Before Eurovision

Evrovidenie 2010

Evrovidenie 2010 was be the national final format developed by Russia 1 in order to select Russia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The final took place on 7 March 2010 at the Vladimir Nazarov's Theater in Moscow, hosted by Oxana Fedorova and Dmitry Guberniev.

Competing entries

On 9 December 2009, Russia 1 announced a submission period for interested artists and composers to submit their entries until 15 February 2010.[1] In addition to that, the broadcaster reserved a right to directly invite acts for the competition as wildcards.[2] A jury panel evaluated the received submissions and selected 25 entries for the competition from 35 shortlisted entries. The shortlist was announced on 26 February 2010, with the selected entries being announced on 2 March 2010, which did not include any wildcards.[3][4]

Eurovision winner-2008 Dima Bilan had planned to enter the national final with the song "White Nights", written by former Eurovision contestant and songwriter Philip Kirkorov, and was immediately tipped for victory. However Bilan's song did not appear in the shortlist of entries, with no reason given by Bilan's producer Yana Rudkovskaya, except that it was a mutual decision between Bilan, Kirkorov and herself.[5][6]

Final

The final took place on 7 March 2010. Twenty-five entries competed and the winner, "Lost and Forgotten" performed by Peter Nalitch Band, was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from a jury panel and public televoting.[7][8] Oleg Bezinskikh came second and Buranovskiye Babushki came third.[9][10]

Dima Bilan (2008) and Alexander Rybak (2009), winners of the two recent Eurovision Song Contest, were the interval acts for the show.[11]

Final – 7 March 2010
Draw Artist Song Percentage Place
1 Princessa Avenue "Lovers" 7.2% 14
2 Jay Stever "I Love, I Love, I Love You" 3.9% 21
3 Ana "Dva golosa" (Два голоса) 10.1% 7
4 Miusha "Big Bang" 3.4% 22
5 Para-Bellum "Ptitsa" (Птица) 8.6% 10
6 Pyotr Sukhov "Ya uletayu" (Я улетаю) 1.6% 25
7 Oleg Bezinskikh "Crowning" 16.1% 2
8 Natalia Terekhova "Everything" 6.3% 17
9 Jet Kids "Hey Say" 11.8% 4
10 Pavla "Infatuated" 10.9% 5
11 Yekaterina Frolova "Tout va bien" 4.4% 20
12 Ed Shulzhevskiy "Without You" 8.2% 11
13 Peter Nalitch Band "Lost and Forgotten" 20.9% 1
14 Buranovskiye Babushki "Dlinnaya-dlinnaya beresta i kak sdelat' iz neyo aishon" (Длинная-длинная береста и как сделать из нее айшон) 12.9% 3
15 Aleksandr Panayotov "Maya Showtime" 10.6% 6
16 Nano "Take It Away" 5.1% 19
17 Natalya Damas & L'brand "Much Closer" 9.2% 9
18 Alena Roxis "My Tears" 2.0% 24
19 Antonello Carozza "Senza respiro" 9.4% 8
20 Polina Kova "For You" 5.8% 18
21 Los Devchatos "Chocolate" 7.5% 13
22 Yulika "Delete" 6.6% 16
23 Yelena Yesenina "Mir bez tebya" (Мир без тебя) 7.9% 12
24 Alaska "Piastry" (Пиастры) 2.7% 23
25 Scenakardia "Styokla" (Стёкла) 6.9% 15

At Eurovision

Russia competed in the first semi-final of the contest, on 25 May 2010. Though it looks that the success of Russia in the Semi-Final voting caused a matter of contention as there was prominent booing during the television broadcast of the first semi final and the show itself. This booing was noted by commentators at the time of broadcast as it was hard to ignore.

Split results
  • In the Semi-final 1 Russia came 7th with 74 points: the public awarded Russia 4th place with 92 points and the jury awarded 14th place with 41 points.
  • In the Final Russia came 11th with 90 points: the public awarded Russia 11th place with 107 points and the jury awarded 15th place with 63 points.

Points awarded by Russia[12]
Points awarded to Russia (Semi-final 1)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Points awarded to Russia (Final)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

See also

References
  1. "Russia 2010".
  2. Murray, Gavin (26 February 2010). "Russia: RTR publish 35 shortlisted participants". ESCToday. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
  3. Murray, Gavin (2 March 2010). "Russia: 25 national finalists announced". ESCToday. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  4. Omelyanchuk, Olena (3 March 2010). "Participants for the Russian national final revealed". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  5. Hondal, Victor (17 February 2010). "Listen to Dima Bilan's song demo version". ESCToday. Retrieved 17 February 2010.
  6. Krasilnikova, Anna (1 March 2010). "Russia: Dima Bilan's absence". ESCToday. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  7. Hondal, Victor (9 December 2009). "Russia hold national final on March 7th". ESCToday. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  8. Brey, Marco (9 December 2009). "Russian national final on 7th of March". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
  9. Omelyanchuk, Olena (7 March 2010). "Russia: Not lost and not forgotten". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  10. Montebello, Edward (7 March 2010). "Russia sends The Peter Nalitch Band to Eurovision". ESCToday. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  11. Murray, Gavin (9 February 2010). "Rybak's national final tour schedule". ESCToday. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  12. Eurovision Song Contest 2008
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