Russia

Russia has participated Eurovision Song Contest 24 times since its debut in 1994. The best ranking is 1. in 2008 with the song called Believe performed by Dima Bilan.

Participations

Year	Song	Performed By	Semi Final Position	Grand Final Position
2021	Russian Woman	Manizha	3. / 16	9. / 26
2020	Uno	Little Big
2019	Scream	Sergey Lazarev	6. / 18	3. / 26
2018	I Won't Break	Julia Samoylova	15. / 18	-
2016	You Are The Only One	Sergey Lazarev	1. / 18	3. / 26
2015	A Million Voices	Polina Gagarina	1. / 16	2. / 27
2014	Shine	Tolmachevy Sisters	6. / 16	7. / 26
2013	What If	Dina Garipova	2. / 16	5. / 26
2012	Party For Everybody	Buranovskiye Babushki	1. / 18	2. / 26
2011	Get You	Alexej Vorobjov	9. / 19	16. / 25
2010	Lost And Forgotten	Peter Nalitch & Friends	7. / 17	11. / 25
2009	Mamo	Anastasia Prikhodko	-	11. / 25
2008	Believe	Dima Bilan	3. / 19	1. / 25
2007	Song # 1	Serebro	-	3. / 24
2006	Never Let You Go	Dima Bilan	3. / 23	2. / 24
2005	Nobody Hurt No One	Natalia Podolskaya	-	15. / 24
2004	Believe Me	Julia Savicheva	-	11. / 24
2003	Ne Ver', Ne Boisia	t.A.T.u.	-	3. / 26
2002	Northern Girl	Prime minister	-	10. / 24
2001	Lady Alpine Blue	Mumiy troll	-	12. / 23
2000	Solo	Alsou	-	2. / 24
1997	Primadonna	Alla Pugachova	-	15. / 25
1995	Kolybelnaya Dlya Vulkana	Philipp Kirkorov	-	17. / 23
1994	Vechni Stranik	Youddiph	-	9. / 25

Hosted events

	Year	Country	Slogan	Venue	Number of participants
	Moscow 2009	Russia		Olimpiysky Arena	42

Countries that vote for Russia

Country	Jury Points	Tel. Points	Total	Average
Albania	16	21	72	3.27
Armenia	21	48	217	12.06
Azerbaijan	72	62	220	12.22
Croatia	29	34	138	5.11
Finland	10	21	133	5.32
Georgia	0	26	81	5.79
Greece	36	29	174	6.21
Hungary	10	27	102	5.10
Iceland	20	19	95	3.52
Lithuania	5	42	178	7.42
Norway	10	15	88	3.14
Portugal	10	11	82	3.73
San Marino	20	36	69	4.60
Serbia	1	33	106	6.63
Türkiye	0	0	50	2.94
Belarus	13	24	212	11.16
Bulgaria	6	19	73	6.08
Cyprus	48	40	193	7.42
Estonia	7	42	251	8.96
Germany	9	38	127	5.52
Israel	13	44	205	8.20
Moldova	49	64	267	11.13
Ukraine	0	25	154	7.70
Austria	11	24	106	5.05
Slovenia	18	18	118	4.54
The Netherlands	33	19	103	3.68
Belgium	19	9	108	3.86
Denmark	6	7	87	3.35
North Macedonia	24	24	109	4.74
France	16	17	81	3.52
Ireland	11	21	112	4.00
Malta	33	36	135	4.50
Romania	17	21	138	5.31
Spain	14	18	102	4.43
Sweden	37	22	115	4.11
Switzerland	7	9	33	1.43
United Kingdom	7	9	65	2.83
Czech Republic	2	35	66	8.25
Latvia	15	58	240	9.60
Poland	1	13	80	3.48
Italy	5	39	70	7.78
Montenegro	26	38	123	8.20
Bosnia and Herzegovina	13	13	57	2.85
Slovakia	0	0	9	1.50
Andorra	0	0	22	2.75
Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	12	6.00
Australia	12	12	44	6.29

Countries that Russia votes for

Country	Jury Points	Tel. Points	Total	Average
Albania	10	0	19	1.00
Andorra	0	0	4	0.80
Armenia	30	34	187	11.69
Australia	11	10	25	3.57
Austria	0	18	27	1.50
Azerbaijan	48	51	213	11.83
Belarus	7	8	89	6.85
Belgium	9	3	75	3.57
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	15	0.75
Bulgaria	6	0	10	1.43
Croatia	4	7	36	1.64
Cyprus	29	36	93	4.04
Czech Republic	5	3	8	1.60
Denmark	3	14	61	2.54
Estonia	8	3	64	2.78
Finland	0	8	43	2.05
France	9	9	66	2.75
Georgia	5	3	70	6.36
Germany	4	0	38	1.58
Greece	24	3	119	4.41
Hungary	10	10	54	2.70
Iceland	2	8	32	1.33
Ireland	0	0	39	1.77
Israel	23	14	87	3.95
Italy	11	17	47	4.27
Latvia	3	1	30	1.67
Lithuania	5	10	58	2.76
Malta	46	10	88	3.38
Moldova	47	37	185	8.81
Montenegro	3	0	8	0.89
North Macedonia	14	6	28	1.65
Norway	10	37	119	4.41
Poland	2	5	32	1.88
Portugal	0	0	4	0.24
Romania	16	0	68	2.83
San Marino	6	0	9	1.00
Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	16	5.33
Serbia	7	9	49	3.06
Slovakia	0	0	1	0.50
Slovenia	0	8	50	2.50
Spain	1	0	22	0.92
Sweden	25	12	82	2.93
Switzerland	3	11	28	1.75
The Netherlands	1	12	35	1.46
Türkiye	0	0	25	1.47
Ukraine	11	47	172	7.82
United Kingdom	6	0	38	1.58