Russia

Russia has participated in the Own Eurovision Song Contest 17 times, debuting in the first contest, with their best position being 1st, achieving this at the OESC #15 contest.

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In the first edition Russia debuted in Chișinău, Moldova by sending Serebro as the country's first contestants with the song "Dyshy", where it qualified and placed 5th out of 22 songs in the Grand Final, scoring 97 points, having only on 1 point less than Romania. Denmark awarded its 12 points to Russia. It was later discovered that the song placed 3rd in the second semi-final. Russia had given its first 12 points to Greece with song Follow me performed by Antique.

Contestants

 * XX on Semi Finals denotes auto-qualification. This could be due to the fact that the country ended up in the top five in previous contest or one of the country in top five in previous edition withdraws.
 * XX on Finals denotes an unsuccessful attempt to qualify to the final.

Voting history (#01-#17)
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