# Russia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019

Russia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 which took place on 24 November 2019 in Gliwice, Poland. The Russian broadcaster All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) was responsible for organising their entry for the contest. Tatyana Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorzhak won the national final on 24 September 2019 with the song "Vremya dlya nas". The Russian organisation team later opted to change the name of the song to "A Time for Us".

## Background

Prior to the 2019 Contest, Russia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest fourteen times since its debut in 2005. Russia have participated at every contest since its debut, and have won the contest two times in 2006 with the song "Vesenniy Jazz", performed by Tolmachevy Twins. The twin sisters went on to become the first act from a Junior Eurovision Song Contest to represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest, performing the song "Shine" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, in Copenhagen, Denmark. and in 2017, Polina Bogusevich with the song "Wings".Anna Filipchuk represented her country in Minsk, Belarus with the song "Unbreakable".She ended 10th out of 20 entries with 122 points.

## Before Junior Eurovision
### Akademiya Eurovision 2019

The Russian broadcaster, VGTRK, announced on 4 December 2018 that they would be participating at the 2019 Contest. Submissions for entrants were open between 18 December to 20 March, with the audition stage taking place in the Russian capital, Moscow, in April 2019. VGTRK announced on 16 September that a total of eleven artists would be competing in the national final. The national selection of the entrant for Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019, took place at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow on 24 September 2019, and was televised a day later on 25 September. The winner was determined by a voting split of jury members and internet voting which opened on 17 September and closed on 23 September. Tatyana Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorzhak won the national final with the song "Vremya dlya nas".
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Jury | Online vote | Total | Place |
| Draw | Artist | Song | Adult | Kids | Online vote | Total | Place |
| 1 | Ksenia Kushner | "Devushki ne plachut" (Девушки не плачут) | 50 | 42 | 86 | 178 | 7 |
| 2 | Tatyana Mezhentseva & Denberel Oorzhak | "Vremya dlya nas" (Время для нас) | 50 | 52 | 839 | 941 | 1 |
| 3 | Nikita Moroz | "Nikita and Friends" | 41 | 29 | 195 | 265 | 3 |
| 4 | Margarita Stryukova | "V moyem nebe" (В моем небе) | 52 | 40 | 155 | 247 | 5 |
| 5 | Mikhail Noginsky | "Supergeroy" (Супергерой) | 39 | 42 | 139 | 220 | 6 |
| 6 | Maryana Titova | "My legendy" (Мы легенды) | 35 | 28 | 190 | 253 | 4 |
| 7 | Like Teens | "Papenkiny dochki" (Папенькины дочки) | 46 | 32 | 22 | 100 | 11 |
| 8 | Yulia Solnyshkova | "Yarkiy svet" (Яркий свет) | 42 | 19 | 56 | 117 | 10 |
| 9 | Alisa Pritochkina | "Vybiray lyubov" (Выбирай любовь) | 37 | 25 | 103 | 165 | 8 |
| 10 | Maria Mirova | "Put k mechte" (Путь к мечте) | 50 | 52 | 29 | 131 | 9 |
| 11 | Daniil Khachaturov | "Zhizn" (Жизнь) | 42 | 42 | 770 | 859 | 2 |

## Artist and song information
### Tatyana Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorzhak

Tatyana Mezhentseva (Russian: Татьяна Меженцева, born 14 December 2009) and Denberel Oorzhak (Russian: Денберел Ооржак, born 3 June 2006) are Russian child singers. They represented Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "A Time for Us". Mezhentseva will go on and represent her country again in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Paris with the song "Mon Ami".

### A Time for Us

"A Time for Us" is a song by Russian singers Tatyana Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorzhak. It represented Russia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

## At Junior Eurovision

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 18 November 2019, Russia was drawn to perform third on 24 November 2019, following France and preceding North Macedonia.

### Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten.
The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 22 November 2019 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on 24 November at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs. They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.