Russia is sending Dima Bilan to Eurovision, for the second time. The first time, he competed in 2006 when he won the 2nd place with a song Never let you go.
Twenty seven songs were presented at the Russian national final, held on 8th March:
1. Dima Bilan – Believe
2. Alexandr Panaiotov- Crescent And Cross
3. Zhenya Otradnaya – Porque Amor
4. Sergey Lazarev – Flyer
5. Alexey Vorobyov – “New Russian Kalinka”
6. Yuliya Mihalchik – “Cold Fingers”
7. Anna Mushak and project “William” – “The Needle”
8. Zhenya Rasskazova – “Otpuskayu tebya” (Setting you free)
9. “Prime-Minister” band – “My parallelnie miry”
10. Tamila Bloggy (Grischenko) – “Sny” (Dreams)
11. A-Sortie band- “Colours Of My Love”
12. Olga Varvus – “King of Seduction”
13. Natalia Astafieva – “Tri luny” (Three moons)
14. Elena Gorskaya (Gorbushina) – “Always All Alone”
15. Max Lorens & Satsura – “Day nam dozhd” (Give us rain)
16. points Polina Smolova – “Na rasstoyanii dyhanya”
17. Anatoliy Alyoshin – “One More Try”
18. “Granat” band- “Another Side of Midnight”
19. Sabrina (Gadzhikaibova) – “Wreck”
20. Pier Narciss & Jam Sheriff – “Who I Am Without Your Love”
21. Asia (Aza Bataeva) – “It’s No Dream”
22. Natalia Terehova – “So You Can Tell Me”
23. “BK!” band – “Don’t Break My Heart”
24. band “Aero” (lead singer Andrey Makarenko) – “Siberia”
25. Roman Bezhin – “I’m Missing”
26. Nora Adam – “Gotta Let It Go”
27. Asylyar (Alsou Zainutdinova) – “Qarligaclar” (Swallows)
Dima Bilan (Дима Билан) won the contest, with 2 points difference to Alexandr, with a song entitled Believe, produced by Timbaland.
Click here to see the lyrics and video for Dima – Believe
Serbia is absolutely the best! So… Vote for it…