Tonight, Russia will have its National Final to decide its representative for the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade.

The 27 songs competiting tonight are:

01. Assorti band
02. Polina Smolova
03. Alsou Zainutdinova
04. Zhenya Otradnaya
05. Andrei Makarenko
06. Anna Mushak
07. Nora Adam
08. Natalia Terehova
09. Evgenia Rasskazova
10. Dima Bilan
11. Elena Gorskaya
12. Aleksandr Panayotov
13. Pier Narciss and Jam Sherif
14. Yulia Mihalchik
15. Granat band
16. Sabrina
17. BK band
18. Aza Batayeva
19. Tamila Grischenko
20. Rime Minister band
21. Anatoliy Aleshin
22. Aleksei Vorobiev
23. Roman Bezhin
24. Sergei Lazarev
25 Natalia Astafeva
26. Maks Lorens and Satsura
27. Olga Varvus

The Russian National Finaltakes placethis tonight, March 9th, 2008 on RTR at 18:40 CET(20:40 local time – Moscow.)

A webcastwill be available here.

Russia will compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 20th.

esctoday.com will provide you with a live report from Russia.