Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018
| Eurovision Song Contest 2018 | ||||
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| Country |
 Russia
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| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Internal Selection | |||
| Selection date(s) |
Artist: 29 January 2018 Song: 11 March 2018 |
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| Selected entrant | Julia Samoylova | |||
| Selected song | "I Won't Break" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) | Netta Nimrodi, Leonid Gutkin, Arie Burshtein | |||
| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result | Failed to qualify (15th, 65 points) | |||
| Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Russia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "I Won't Break" written by Netta Nimrodi, Leonid Gutkin and Arie Burshtein. The song was performed by Julia Samoylova, who was internally selected by the Russian broadcaster Channel One Russia to represent the nation at the 2018 contest in Lisbon, Portugal. On May 10th Russia failed to qualify for the 2018 Eurovision Final.
Prior to the 2018 contest, Russia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty times since its first entry in 1994. Russia had won the contest on one occasion in 2008 with the song "Believe" performed by Dima Bilan. Russia's least successful result has been 17th place, which they have achieved in the 1995 with the song "Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana" performed by Philipp Kirkorov. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004, Russia has, to this point, managed to qualify to the final on every occasion. In 2016, Russia finished third with the song "You Are the Only One" performed by Sergey Lazarev.
On 12 March 2017, Channel One announced that they had internally selected Julia Samoylova, with her song "Flame is Burning" for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 which was held in Kiev, Ukraine. However, on 22 March 2017, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed that Samoylova had been banned from entering Ukraine for three years for illegally travelling to Crimea. On 13 April 2017, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said Russia was no longer able to take part in 2017's competition. The Russian state broadcaster Channel One responded by stating that they will not broadcast the contest.
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