Overview

• Channel One and VK Video will carry the live broadcast, with overseas networks relaying the show internationally.
• Twenty‑three countries are confirmed; Cuba opens and India closes the running order, and Russia’s Shaman performs ninth with a song by Maxim Fadeev.
• An international professional jury selects the winner, with Russia represented by Igor Matvienko and the United States by Joe Lynn Turner, under confidential voting rules.
• The winner receives a crystal trophy plus 30 million rubles, and all participants receive diplomas with potential special prizes from the organizer.
• The event is state‑organized following a February decree, visa facilitation and a 750 million‑ruble allocation, with ambassadors including Dima Bilan, Pelageya, Klava Koka and Alexander Ovechkin.