Russia – There is speculation in the Russian press today that the 2008 Eurovision winner Dima Bilan has teamed up to enter again this year with Yulia Volkova, half of former pop stars t.A.T.u. The song is said to be called “Back To The Future” and is written by Swedish songwriters. Among other confirmed entrants of tomorrow’s semifinal are Buranovskiye Babushki, Timoti & Aida Garifullina, Elena Terleeva, 4post, Boris Khludnev, Shinshilli, Sara Oks, Elena Ekimova, Efrosiya, Riff Action Family, SR Project, and Rene.
Entries from Sergey Savin, Mark Tishman, Irsen Kudikova are also expected but have not been confirmed officially. There will be 30-35 acts in this first round, which is held behind closed doors. It will be cut to 25 for the live show final on March 7th.
Source – esckaz.com
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Again Bilan? hehe… :D Plz, stoooooooop, Dima!
Hmmm can be very interesting…and if Swedish composers are good ones…but for me is VERY promising Timati feat. Aida Garifullina because she’s GREAT opera singer and he’s very good and current rapper..that entry can be great!
oh please, let Yulia sing this song alone :) …
I actually hope Dima Bilan and her won’t enter this NF because without them Timati will have more chances to go to Baku! If he looses this year he will never appear for ESC again! :(
Russian NF have been pretty good in the past and even if the resutls have been a let down, I still hold Russia as a great esc country (94, 97, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 09 are all great in my book and i actually like 07 and 10 ; 2011 was the disaster and 2008 one of their weakest entry and it won!) so I hope for a great improvement from last year! Good luck! Please, be courageous again like in 2001, 2009 and 2010… even if the results are not as high as Ukraine or Greece, at least Russia’s been daring once in a while!
Dj Antoine feat. Timati & Kalenna – “Welcome to St. Tropez”
Almost 80.000.000 views..
I want Timati feat. Diddy Dirty Money to represent Russia LOL!
I wouldn’t mind having Dima again :) but there are many promising singers like Marko said
Aida Garifullina is one of them and she is great indeed :) here is a video of her duet with dima http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofBs0Tr6ALQ
Osan Yöstä is another band joining Russian selection..They have a song called Revontulet sung in 5-6 different languages which are about to extinct http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lje0DigdWMQ
Russia is coming strong again!
Seriously… I’m sick of that swedish songwriters are everywhere… This is ridiculous.
I can imagine that this is one of the most popular job in Sweden. LOL
whatever song and singer , c qui est très important please sing in russian..shame on you Russia..Russia is big country and everybody know that russian is beautiful language, but why russian team always sends english song to esc???
The guy is just insufferable.
HIs first entry was good but Believe was awful (even with the ridiculous ice skaiting nonsense).Am just not a fan of him but I am interested in hearing how this duet sounds. It would be funny if the grannies got the ticket as am sure they’d be a hoot irrespective of the song but I doubt it somehow.
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2rd, 2nd, 1st. Needless to say, Europe loves them. Swedes should not be allowed to take part in a Russian NF though.
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