Eurovision 2021The Moscow Times: Russia’s Eurovision battleBy The Moscow Times. Published March 14, 2017. Updated March 14 at 4:05 pm Yulia Samoylova planned to represent Russia at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine with the song Flame is Burning. Photo by YouTube /Eurovision Song ContestRussia has claimed the moral high ground by nominating a singer in a wheelchair. But how much of that is calculation?Read more here.