March 8, 2021

It was the best kept secret of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest: what is Russia gonna do? Only at the beginning of the show, last year’s contestants-to-be Little Big announced that they would not represent Russia in Rotterdam. Singer Ilya Prusikin said they decided this together with broadcaster Channel 1.

Tonight, at 18.00 CET, Russia will have its national final. You can watch it here. The contestants are… And that is where the problem starts. We don’t know anything about the contestants. Russian broadcaster Channel 1 keeps everything secret. We only know rumours. One of the rumours is that Little