High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Russia was the host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, held in the Russian capital Moscow, after Russia's win in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. Channel One will resume organisation of the Russian participation in Eurovision. Channel One used a national final to select the 13th Russian entry for Eurovision, having primarily used internal selections to select previous entries. Over 1000 entries were sent into Channel One. 50 of them were chosen and sent to a jury to select 15 that will compete in the televised national final on 7 March 2009. The winner was to be selected in the same voting method to be used at Eurovision, with both televoting and a jury vote. Venger Collective, Tim Rocks, Polina Griffith, Quatro are the following artists of Russian preselection that are breaking "1st of October rule", according to which participating songs, in full or in part, should not be publicly performed, released on audio or video, published in the internet or in any other way before 1st of October 2008.

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