Details of the Russian selection process “Five Stars” for Intervision have been revealed today. The contest which will be held in Yalta, Crimea will take place over 3 days from the 12th of June to the 15th of June.
The jury members are:
- People’s Artist of the USSR, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Joseph Kobzon
- Soviet and Russian composer, singer and poet, People’s Artist of Russia Yuri Antonov
- Main musical producer of the contest “Five Stars”, the composer Viktor Drobysh
- Producer and composer Igor Matvienko
- People’s Artist of Russia Irina Allegrova
Also performing during the three day selection will be the past Russian Eurovision entrants Julia Savicheva (2004), Buranovoskyie Babushki (2012), Dina Garipova (2013) as well as the 2007 entry from Belarus Dmitry Koldun.
The official website for the selection can be found here.
Source: Rus Radio
does this mean russia are leaving esc?
Oh, I hope not 🙁
No it doesn’t. Take for example Turkvizyon, many ESC countries took part in that and ESC.
yeah but the host of turkvizyon didn’t, because turkvizyon was a protest…
Wait, the logo gives the location as “Russia, Crimea, Yalta” – so stating that Crimea is part of Russia? Surely they won’t be able to get many other participants to take part if that’s where they’re holding it, as barely any (if any?) of the other CIS states recognise Crimea as Russian
Also the 5 Stars contest has been held at least once before, in 2008, I seem to remember Tajikistan won.
Yep Tajikistan won in 2008 – there’s a list of the participants in the 2008 contest (in Russian only) at http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%98%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5