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Russia participated in Eurovision 23 times from joining the 1994 contest and won once in 2008, with Dima Bilhan's song.

With one win, twice when it came to the second place and four times when it came to third place, Russia is the most successful country in the 2000s between the contests in 2000-2009, when followed by Greece, with one win and three times in which it reached third place.

History of History

Achievements
Russia's first appearance in the contest took place in 1994 after the Russian Broadcasting Authority officially joined the European Broadcasting Union. Russia took part in the contest about 22 times: of which it won once in 2008, with the song "Believe" of Dima Bilhan, and is in the tournament's winning table along with Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Portugal, Portugal, Finland, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Monaco, Belgium, Serbia and Greece. Russia arrived in the contest 4 times in 2000 with the song "Solo", in 2006 with the song "Never Let You Go", in 2012, with the song "Party For Everyone", and 2015 with the song "A Million Voices". Russia shares its title with Ireland, France, Germany, and Spain that have reached the second place four times. Russia reached third place in 2003 with the song "Ne Ver Ne Boisia", in 2007 with the song "Song # 1", in 2016 with the song "You Are The Only One" and 2019 with the song "Scream". Russia once came to the fifth place in 2013 with the song "What If" and never reached the fourth place in the contest.

These achievements have given Russia the title of the most successful country in the 2000s, followed by Greece, with one win and three times when it reached third place. From the start of the semi-final phase in 2004, Russia managed to rise to the end of the competition from the semi-finals whenever it took part in the competition, along with countries such as Ukraine, Romania and Australia, apart from the 2018 contest, where Russia failed to qualify for the final semi-finals for the first time in its history.

Russia's worst achievement in the final competition is the seventeenth place with seventeen points to which it came in 1995, with the song "Kolibelnaya dlya vulkana" by Philip Kirkov, but Russia never finished the final competition in the last place and never finished the final competition with zero points.

absences
Russia has been missing from 7 Eurovision competitions over the years:

Russia's first absence occurred in 1996, when it stems from the multi-states that sought to take part in the competition, requiring the European Broadcasting Union to filter the countries that sought to participate in the contest. Two methods for filtering were set for this: filtering the least good songs and motivating from countries whose achievements in previous years were low to take part in the contest. In 1996, Andrei Kosinski was elected as the representative of Russia for the competition held in Norway, with the song "Ya eto ya". Kusinski did not eventually appear in the Eurovision Song Contest, because in the same year it was decided to make an early vote of judicial teams from all countries taking part based on recorded versions of the songs, and from the competition the songs that came to the last seven places. This is due to the need to open the growing number of countries that sought to take part in the contest when in 1996, the number reached 30 countries. Nafty sings after being selected in a local contest, investing resources in Argon, caused an incontinence among the broadcasting networks that take part in Eurovision, and therefore changed the policy in the following years. To resolve disputes, starting in 2004, the semi-final system was established.

Russia's second absence took place in 1998 due to its psycheduling by the European Broadcasting Union due to low achievements in years