Channel 1 Russia, C1, has informed esctoday.com that a special press conference will be held on Friday 15 March at 10: oo CET at the Ria Novosti News Agency in Moscow to officially present the videoclip of  2013 Russian entry  What if.  

Dina Garipova, the 2013 Russian Eurovision representative will be attending the press conference along with her coach.  The Russian press will get the chance to meet and greet the Russian artist and learn more about her forthcoming Eurovision participation.

The multi talented artist who hails from  Tatarstan has had a tight and busy schedule since she was officially announced as the 2013 Russian Eurovision representative. She just concluded filming for the official videoclip of her Eurovison entry few days back. During the clip, Dina is seen on stage at Moscow’s famous Maly Theatre. There she is joined by a cast of 500 extras, each representing a different nationality, religion or walk of life.

Earlier last month  the Russian broadcaster informed esctoday  that Dina Garipova will represent Russia at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö next May.

Dina Garipova shot to fame in Russia when she won the Russian version of the popular television show The Voice last December with 54% of the public vote.. The 2013 Russian representative was selected via an internal selection. She will sing What if  in Malmö. The Russian entry has been produced by Gabriel Alearson and Joakim Björnberg from Sweden in collaboration with Russian musician  Leonid Gutkin.

Dina hails from the Russian region of  Tatarstan and has been singing since the tender age of 6. She is a multi-talented artist who has experience in singing in Tatar, Russian, Italian, French and English.

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.

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