Evrovidenie

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Evrovidenie. Nacionalny Otbor
Also known asYevrovideniye
GenreMusic, entertainment
Created byChannel One (C1R)
Russia-1 (RTR)
Country of originRussia
Original languageRussian
No. of series9 editions
No. of episodes20
Production
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running timeVariable
Production companiesProgramma "A" (1994, 1996)
RGTRK Ostankino & Lis's (1995)
VID (2005)
VGTRK (2008, 2010, 2012)
Krasny Kvadrat (2009)
Channel One (2021)
Release
Original networkRussia-1 (1994–2012)
Channel One (1995–2021)
Picture formatSECAM (1994–2009)
DVB-T 576i (2010-2012)
HDTV 1080i (2021)
Original release12 March 1994 (1994-03-12) –
8 March 2021 (2021-03-08)[a]
Chronology
Followed byPesnya dlya Evropy (1996)
Internal selection (1997–2004, 2006–2007, 2011, 2013–2020)
Related showsEurovision Song Contest

Evrovidenie. Nacionalny Otbor (in Russian: Евровидение. Национальный отбор, IPA: [jɪvrɐˈvʲidʲɪnʲɪjɪ. nət͡sɨɐˈnalʲnɨj ɐˈdbor], lit. 'Eurovision. National Selection'), Nacionalny Otbor na Evrovidenie (in Russian: Национальный отбор на Евровидение, IPA: [nət͡sɨɐˈnalʲnɨj ɐˈdbor nə jɪvrɐˈvʲidʲɪnʲɪjɪ], lit. 'National Selection for Eurovision') or simply Evrovidenie (in Russian: Евровидение, IPA: [jɪvrɐˈvʲidʲɪnʲɪjɪ], lit. 'Eurovision') is a Russian televised musical competition organized by Russian public broadcasters Channel One (previously ORT) in odd years and Russia-1 (RTR) of VGTRK in even years.[b] The competition is used to select Russia's representative in the Eurovision Song Contest. Since 2005, it has been streamed live online through the respective websites of the broadcasters. Throughout its history, the competition has been held using different names, including Evrovidenie – Pesnya '95 (1995), Pesnya dlya Evropy (1996), Evrovidenie – Vybirayet Rossiya (2005), Kto? (2014), but has been known for most of its history as Evrovidenie. Nacionalny Otbor (1994, 2008–2010, 2012, 2021).

The competition has produced one winner, one runner-up and two top 10 placings for Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest. The results of the other selected representatives have ranged from 11th place in both 2009 and 2010 to a record low of 27th place in the 1996 audio-only qualifying round. At its inception, the winner of Evrovidenie was chosen by panels of jurors, but this changed to a public televoting system for the 2005 edition.[c] The jury structure was then restored for 2008 with a combination of jury and televoting were used for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012. In 2021, the contest returned to choosing a winner by public televoting only.

History[]

Early years[]

Youddiph (Masha Katz) was selected by Evrovidenie to be the first Russian entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994.

The first Russian national final took place on 12 March 1994 at Shabolovka Studios in Moscow and was broadcast on Russian Television and Radio (RTR). It was organized by the production team of Programma A and was hosted by Vadim Dolgachev. Eleven songs were supposed to participate in the contest, however two were later removed from consideration. This included "Oi oi oi" performed by Alena Apina, which was disqualified after receiving radio airplay prior to the competition, and "Kogda vernus v Rossiyu" performed by Vika Tsiganova, which was withdrawn after Tsiganova wanted to change her contest song, which was not allowed by the rules.[4] A jury composed of representatives of RTR, music industry professionals and representatives of the public selected Youddiph as winner with the song "Vechni strannik".[5] Ultimately, Russia finished ninth at Eurovision Song Contest 1994, with 70 points.[6]

For the nation's second year in the Eurovision Song Contest, the second Russian broadcaster  [ru] was to be responsible for the selection of a participant from Russia. However, due to the corporatization of Channel One, the entity was replaced with Russian Public Television (ORT) and the new TV company subsequently held the national final on 30 April 1995 in the concert hall of Cosmos Hotel.[7] A total of nine songs participated. After the votes of the jury panel were counted, there was a tie for the first place between "V sinem sne" performed by Oksana Pavlovskaya and "Epitaphia" performed by Viktoria Vita. Ultimately, the jury decided that neither contestant would represent Russia, deciding to send Philip Kirkorov to the contest instead with the song "Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana".[7][8][9] At Eurovision, the Russian song did not fare well, placing 17th out of 23, with 17 points.[10]

In 1996, the right to choose Russia's entrant returned to RTR, which decided to return to their 1994 format of an open national final. The event took place on 2 March 1996 and was hosted by Youddiph, winner of 1994 edition. Fourteen songs took part in the contest. A jury, which was composed of representatives of RTR, music industry professionals and representatives of the public, selected Andrey Kosinsky as winner with the song "Ya eto ya".[11][12] Kosinsky was subsequently eliminated in the audio-only qualifying round for the Eurovision Song Contest 1996, which was used by the European Broadcasting Union in order to reduce the number of participating nations that would compete in the televised Eurovision final.[13] After the non-qualification, RTR decided not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, leaving ORT (Channel One) as the only remaining broadcaster willing to take part in future years. The nation then sat out the 1998 and 1999 contests, before opting to return for 2000.[14] For that contest, ORT opened the application window for a national final to take place on 19 February 2000, returning to the format of a national selection for the first time since 1995.[2][3] However, financial problems at ORT forced them to cancel the event and instead select the Russian entry internally.[15] The artist chosen by the broadcaster was 16-year-old singer Alsou, who took second place in the contest with her song "Solo".[16] In the following years, ORT opted to not hold national selections, switching instead to internally selected entrants.[17]

2004–2011[]

In 2004, Yuri Aksyuta, Head of the Directorate of Music and Entertainment Broadcasting of Channel One, commented on the lack of national selection stating that "It's too early to trust our public".[18] After the discontent of the Russian population with candidacy of the internally selected Yulia Savicheva in 2004, Channel One decided to change the format of the selection of contestants by holding a national final in 2005 for the first time since 1996.[19][20][21] The national final consisted of three semi-finals, with ten songs in each. Three artists from each semi-final, chosen by televoting, went to the final which took place on 25 February.[22] All shows took place in Ostankino Studios in Moscow and broadcast live three times, once of each of the three Russian time zones. All regions participated using televoting and SMS, with the results announced during the final broadcast for Western Russia.[23] Among the thirty participants was Sergey Mazaev, who was late for the third semi-final, after which he was disqualified.[24][22] The winner of the national final was Natalia Podolskaya with the song "Nobody Hurt No One", receiving 20.2% of the votes.[25] Natalia's victory created a scandal due to the fact that many people who voted for the various contestants, including Reflex, Playgirls, KGB and Podolskaya's nearest rival Dima Bilan, were unable to cast their votes, raising doubts about the fairness of the process. According to the company Edmar+, which organised the televoting, the capacity of their lines is limited, and when the mass of connections reached a critical volume, some calls and messages were automatically filtered out.[26][27][28] At the Eurovision final, which took place on 21 May in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, Russia took 15th place out of 24 with 57 points. Among their points was the maximum score of 12 from Belarus, the home country of Podolskaya.[29] Following this result, Channel One decided to return to a internal selection the following year.[30]

Dima Bilan (center) performing at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with Edvin Marton (left) and Evgeni Plushenko (right), brought Russia its first contest win.

In 2008, the selection of Russia's Eurovision entrant returned to RTR, with the broadcaster organising a national selection with twenty-five candidates.[31][32] Later, this number was increased to 27 after RTR added two wildcards to the list of participants in the selection. These were Sergey Lazarev and 2006 Belarusian Eurovision entrant Polina Smolova.[33] Also among the participants of the selection was the 2006 Russian Eurovision entrant Dima Bilan, who submitted the song "Por Que Te Amo". Later it turned out that this song was released in 2006 by Argentinian singer Luciano Pereira, thereby violating one of the Eurovision rule barring songs from being commercially released before 1 October 2007.[32][34] Ultimately, the song was replaced with "Believe", which ended up winning the event with 54 points, including the maximum score (27) from both the jury and televoting.[35][36] At the Eurovision Song Contest, Russia received 272 points, winning the contest and earning Russia the right to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.[37][38][39]

After this victory, Channel One announced a national selection in November 2008 and opened a submission period for interested artists and composers to submit their entries.[40] The initial format of the national final consisted of three stages: The first stage was for selecting the song, the second for selecting three artists, and the third for selecting the combination of song and artist. This format was later amended by Channel One, where the artists would instead compete with the songs they had entered with. The broadcaster received over a thousand submissions at the conclusion of the deadline. Fifty of them were shortlisted and a jury panel selected fifteen finalists for the national final.[41] On 5 March 2009, Channel One announced that Anastasia Prikhodko would also participate in the national final with the song "Mamo", as a protest against her elimination from the 2009 Ukrainian Eurovision national final, increasing the number of participants to sixteen.[42] The national selection took place on 7 March at Ostankino Studios in Moscow and consisted of two stages. According to the results of the televoting, three superfinalists were selected from sixteen contestants: Anastasia Prikhodko, Valeriya and band "Kvatro". Out of three applicants, a professional jury selected Anastasia Prikhodko's song "Mamo" as the winner.[43] At the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, the song placed 11th with 91 points.[44]

On 9 December 2009, RTR announced a submission period for artists to apply for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The broadcaster received over a thousand submissions at the conclusion of the deadline. Thirty-five entries were selected from the received submissions to proceed to auditions held on 1 March 2010 at the Vladimir Nazarov's Theater in Moscow. There, a jury panel selected the twenty-five finalists for the national final. The competing acts were announced on 2 March 2010.[45] Ultimately, at the selection which took place on 7 March in Vladimir Nazarov's Theater in Moscow, the musical group of Peter Nalitch won with the song "Lost and Forgotten".[17] For Eurovision, the band was renamed "Peter Nalitch and Friends". Their final placing in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 held in Oslo was 11th, tying that of Anastasia Prikhodko the previous year.[46]

In 2011, Channel One canceled the national selection because of declining interest in the selection process in Russia and the channel's claims that internally selected applicants placed higher than ones selected through the national selection process.[47][48]

2012–2021[]

The group Buranovskiye Babushki was selected by Evrovidenie to represent Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.

After one year of absence, RTR announced on 28 December 2011 that it would reinstate the national selection process, and asked for submissions from artists and composers. The broadcaster received 150 submissions at the conclusion of the deadline, and between thirty-five and forty entries were selected to proceed to auditions. There, a jury panel selected the twenty-five finalists for the national final, which was supposed to take place on 26 February, but was postponed to 7 March.[49] Ultimately, at the selection held in the Akademichesky Concert Hall in Moscow, the winner was the band Buranovskiye Babushki with the song "Party for Everybody", which received 38.51 points. Runner-ups Dima Bilan and Julia Volkova scored 29.25, and third place Timati and Aida Garifullina scored 26.74.[50] The song fared well in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, finishing second place with 259 points.[51]

The 2012 selection was the last Russian national selection for nine years. In 2014, the national selection was set to take place but was ultimately canceled because the broadcaster thought the song submissions were of poor quality.[52] After the cancellation of the 2014 selection, both broadcasters switched to internal selections.

In 2020, Channel One internally selected the band Little Big with the song "Uno" as representatives of Russia at Eurovision Song Contest 2020. The contest was later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Channel One intended to choose Little Big again to represent Russia at the following contest in 2021. However, as the band did not have a suitable song to use for the second year in a row, it was decided by Channel One to hold a national selection for the first time since 2012.[53] The event was announced on 2 March 2021, but it was not until the evening of the selection itself that the artists which would participate in the national final were announced.[54][55] Two hours before the selection, names of participants were leaked via Instagram.[56] The selection committee of Channel One selected several candidates and asked them to submit several unreleased songs for consideration. Then, the committee listened to them and selected three performers for national final. The selected artists were Therr Maitz, #2Mashi and Manizha. The national selection, which took place on 8 March in Mosfilm Studios in Moscow, was won by Manizha with her song "Russian Woman". The song caused controversy as many Russian viewers took offense to a singer of Tajik descent singing about Russian women and to the singer's activism for LGBT and women's rights; they demanded that she drop out of Eurovision.[57] Yelena Drapeko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, 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.[58] Despite this, the entry still went on to represent the nation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, held in Rotterdam. Manizha qualified for the final and reached 9th place with 204 points,[59] of which 104 points from the juries and 100 from televoting.[60] Following the Eurovision final, on May 26, 2021, Wonderzine published an article that retold reports from other sources that the national selection was staged, and Manizha's victory in it was a foregone conclusion. According to the article, Manizha's relatives, including her uncle, are connected with state corporations.[61] The next day, Manizha said that in connection with the publication she was going to file a lawsuit against Taratuta "for the protection of honor and dignity".[62]

The 2021 selection is the last Russian national selection to date, as on 25 February 2022, the EBU announced that Russia would not compete at the 2022 contest, stating that "in light of the unprecedented crisis in Ukraine, the inclusion of a Russian entry in this year's Contest would bring the competition into disrepute."[63] The next day, all EBU members from Russia, including VGTRK and Channel One, announced their withdrawal from the union, according to a statement released by Russian state media, marking the end of Russian participation in Eurovision and Russian national selections for the foreseeable future.[64]

Series overview[]

Color key

  Male artist
  Female artist
  Band/duo
Year Premiere Finale Contestants Episodes Winner Runner-up Third place
12 March 1994 11 9[d] 1 Youddiph Nogu Svelo Andrey Misin
30 April 1995 9 1
Oksana Pavlovskaya and Viktoria Vita[e]
No third placer[f]
2 March 1996 14 1 Andrey Kosinsky Elena Kuzmina Nogu Svelo
19 February 2000[3]
N/A
1 Contest cancelled[g]
4 February 2005 25 February 2005 30 29[h] 12 Natalia Podolskaya Dima Bilan Anastasia Stotskaya
9 March 2008 25 27[i] 1 Dima Bilan Aleksandr Panayotov Zhenya Otradnaya
7 March 2009 15 16[j] 1 Anastasia Prikhodko Valeriya Kvatro
7 March 2010 25 1 Peter Nalitch and Friends Oleg Bezinskih Buranovskiye Babushki
7 March 2012[k] 25 1 Buranovskiye Babushki Dima Bilan & Julia Volkova Timati & Aida Garifullina
March 2014[69] 25[70] 1 Contest cancelled[l]
8 March 2021 3 1 Manizha #2Mashi Therr Maitz

At Eurovision[]

Table key
1 Winner
2 Second place
3 Third place
X Entry selected but did not compete
Year Entrant Song Language Final Points Semi Points
1994 Youddiph "Vechni stranik" (Вечный странник) Russian 9 70 No semi-finals
1995 Philipp Kirkorov "Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana" (Колыбельная для вулкана) Russian 17 17
1996 Andrey Kosinsky "Ya eto ya" (Я это я) Russian Failed to qualify[m] X 27 14
2005 Natalia Podolskaya "Nobody Hurt No One" English 15 57 Top 12 previous year[n]
2008 Dima Bilan "Believe" English 1 272 3 135
2009 Anastasia Prikhodko "Mamo" (Мамо) Russian, Ukrainian 11 91 Host country[o]
2010 Peter Nalitch and Friends "Lost and Forgotten" English 11 90 7 74
2012 Buranovskiye Babushki "Party for Everybody" Udmurt, English 2 259 1 152
2021 Manizha "Russian Woman" Russian, English 9 204 3 225

Venues and host(s)[]

Year City Channel Venue Semi-final host(s) Final host(s) Green room host(s)
1994
Moscow
4-й логотип РТР.svg RTR  [ru] None Vadim Dolgachev None
1995 Channel one russia logo 1.PNG ORT Cosmos Hotel Unknown
1996 4-й логотип РТР.svg RTR Shabolovka Studios Youddiph
2000
N/A
Channel one russia logo 3.PNG ORT Contest cancelled[g]
2005
Moscow
1канал-5.svg C1R Ostankino Studios Yana Churikova and Andrey Malakhov None
2008 7-й логотип Россия.svg RTR Akademicheskiy Concert Hall None Oxana Fedorova and Oskar Kuchera
2009 1канал-5.svg C1R Ostankino Studios Yana Churikova and Andrey Malakhov Dmitry Shepelev
2010 Russia-1.svg RTR Vladimir Nazarov's Theater Oxana Fedorova and Dmitry Guberniev None
2012 Rossiya-1 Logo.svg RTR Akademicheskiy Concert Hall Olga Shelest and Mikhail Zelensky
2014 Moscow[70] 11-й логотип Россия-1.svg RTR Contest cancelled[l]
2021
Moscow
1канал-5.svg C1R Mosfilm Studios None Yana Churikova

Voting[]

Year Voting format Ref.
1994 Each juror awarded 1 point to one, two or three entries. [74]
1995 Unknown
1996 Each juror awarded 1 point to one, two or three entries. [75]
2005 Televoting [76]
2008 Juries and televoting each awarded 1–27 points to the entries. [77]
2009 First Round: Televoting
Second Round: Each juror awarded 1 point to one entry.
[78]
2010 Combination of jury and televoting points [79]
2012 [80]
2021 Televoting [55]

Judges[]

Year Judges Ref.
1994 Bari Alibasov, Maya Gordeeva, Oleg Gusev, Klara Novikova, Yuri Saulsky, Lora Kvint, Mikhail Kuvshinov, Elena Velikanova, Sergey Podgorbunsky, Natalia Shuykina, Valery Kiselyov, Tatyana Algebraistova, Andrey Kalachikhin, Olga Suvorova, Irina Berezina, Andrey Panov, Aleksandr Danilkin [81]
1995 Unknown[p]
1996 Galina Golubova, Roman Prygunov, Irina Otieva, Yuri Yagudin, Tatyana Cherednychenko, Pavel Ovsyannikov, Alla Pugacheva, Alexey Rybnikov, Galina Masharova, Mikhail Sevastopolsky, Inga Voronovskaya, Igor Stepanov, Nadezhda Kobryzhenkova, Petr Gorovoy, Natalia Samoylova, Gennady Videnko [83]
2005[c] Konstantin Ernst, Yuri Aksyuta, Igor Matvienko, Maxim Fadeev, Viktor Drobysh, Alexey Charykov, Ilya Bachurin, Artur Gasparyan, Vladimir Polupanov, Maxim Kononenko, Larisa Havkina, Vladimir Matetsky, Maksim Dunayevsky, Larisa Dolina, Alexander Malinin, Larisa Sinelshikova [68]
2008 Igor Krutoy, Sergey Arhipov, Maxim Fadeev, Gennady Gokhshtein, Vladimir Matetsky [77]
2009 Alexander Barannikov, Dzhohan Pollyeva, Yuri Aksyuta, Kim Breitburg, Alexander Dulov, Igor Krutoy, Alexander Lunyov, Vladimir Matetsky, Ruben Oganesov, Larisa Sinelschikova, Maxim Fadeev [78]
2010 Andrey Demidov, Igor Krutoy, Gennady Gokhshtein, Maxim Fadeev, Sergey Arhipov [84]
2012 Sergey Arhipov, Igor Krutoy, Alexander Igudin, Philipp Kirkorov, Arman Davletyarov, Roman Emelyanov, Gennady Gokhshtein [85]

Viewing figures[]

Year Episode Rating Share Coverage Ranking Channel Ref.
2005[q]
Semi-final 1
6.6%
16.0%
N/A
43
C1R
[86]
Semi-final 2
6.4%
14.9%
N/A
48
[87]
Semi-final 3
5.5%
13.1%
N/A
66
[88]
Final
9.5%
20.6%
N/A
19
[89]
2008
Final
4.1%
12.7%
N/A
60
RTR
[90]
2010
Final
5.1%
15.6%
N/A
44
[91]
2012[q]
Final
3.1%
10.1%
N/A
78
[92]
2021
Final
3.9%
12.5%
10.5%
14
C1R
[93]

See also[]

Notes and references[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Aired intermittently.[1]
  2. ^ Except in 2000 (even year), when ORT (Channel One) was supposed to organize a national selection.[2][3]
  3. ^ a b In 2005, a jury panel provided commentary and feedback to the artists during the show, but did not vote.
  4. ^ Two songs were disqualified prior to the competition: "Oi oi oi" performed by Alena Apina was disqualified after receiving radio airplay prior to the competition and "Kogda vernus v Rossiyu" performed by Vika Tsiganova was disqualified due to the fact that Vika wanted to change her contest song, however, according to the rules, the artists had no right to change the song and as a result, Vika decided to withdraw her candidacy.[65]
  5. ^ After the votes of the jury panel have been counted, there was a tie for the first place between "V sinem sne" performed by Oksana Pavlovskaya and "Epitaphia" performed by Viktoria Vita. The tie was to be resolved, however, the jury came to the conclusion that none but one of the selection participants deserves to represent Russia and decided to send Philip Kirkorov to the contest instead of Viktoria or Oksana.[7]
  6. ^ There is no third place due to the fact that all other participants received 0% of the jury's votes.[66]
  7. ^ a b Plans for the national final were abandoned by the broadcaster due to financial problems.[15][67]
  8. ^ Sergey Mazaev was disqualified from the competition after being late for the Siberia run of the live show.[68]
  9. ^ Initially, 25 artists were supposed to participate in the selection. However, RTR decided to add 2 wildcards to the list of participants in the selection.[33]
  10. ^ Initially, 15 songs were supposed to participate in the selection, however, on 5 March 2009, C1R announced that Anastasia Prikhodko 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.[41]
  11. ^ Initially, the selection was supposed to take place on 26 February. However, for unknown reasons, the selection date was changed to 7 March.[49]
  12. ^ a b Plans for the national final were abandoned by the broadcaster due to the poor quality of submitted songs.[71][72]
  13. ^ In 1996, Russia failed to qualify from the audio only pre-qualification round. The official Eurovision site does not count 1996 in Russia's total list of appearances.[73]
  14. ^ If a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in Semi-finals. In addition, from 2004 to 2007, the top 10 non-Big Four countries did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year. For example, if Germany and France placed inside the top 10, the 11th and 12th spots were advanced to next year's grand final along with all countries in the top 10.
  15. ^ If a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year.[39]
  16. ^ It is not known exactly who was part of the jury, however, it is known that the jury included members of management of ORT channel.[82]
  17. ^ a b Statistics for Moscow only.

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