Dina Garipova the 2013 Russian Eurovision representative has recorded a special message for you!

Dina invites you to follow her and read about the latest news on the 2013 Russian entry on esctoday.com

Dina Garipova has a hectic and busy schedule ahead of her as she is currently busy touring Europe. She has already visited Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Ukraine and Cyprus. She arrived in the beautiful Serbian capital Belgrade yesterday where she will be meeting with the 2013 Serbian Eurovision representatives Moje 3. The Russian artist will be heading to Lithuania tomorrow. Dina will be travelling to Stockholm in early May where she will be performing  as a special guest at the  Finest Night of Schlager on 3-4 May 2013.

Dina Garipova’s special message for esctoday.com’s readers

Dina Garipova was selected via an internal selection to represent Russia at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest. She will fly the Russian flag in Malmo with her song What if.  Russia will compete in the Eurovision Song Contest Semifinal 1 on 14 May.

Russia debuted at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin with Youdiph’s Vechni stranik, and has graced the Eurovision stage 16 times. Since the year 2000 Russia has been in the final every year, and taken silver thrice (2000,2006 and 2o12) and bronze twice (2003, 2007) as well. Russia won Eurovision gold in 2008  when Dima Bilan triumphed in Belgrade with Believe and gave Russia the honour of hosting the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.

Esctoday.com would like to thank Dina Garipova and her team for recording this message.

Stay tuned to esctoday.com for more information on Russia and the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.