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.

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. In addition to that, the broadcaster reserved a right to directly invite acts for the competition as wildcards. 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.
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.

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. Oleg Bezinskikh came second and Buranovskiye Babushki came third.
Dima Bilan and Alexander Rybak, winners of the two recent Eurovision Song Contest, were the interval acts for the show.

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

Semi-final 1

Final

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