Московский комсомолец
On 11 January 2005, C1R announced a submission period for interested artists and composers to submit their entries until 1 February 2005. 57 entries were shortlisted from the received submissions and a jury panel selected the 30 semi-finalists for the national final on 1 February 2005. The jury consisted of Konstantin Ernst (general manager of C1R), Yuriy Aksyuta (music director of C1R), Igor Matvienko (composer and producer), Maxim Fadeev (composer and producer), Viktor Drobysh (composer and producer), Alexey Charykov (composer and producer), Ilya Bachurin (vice president of MTV Russia), Artur Gasparyan (music editor for "Moskovskij Komsomolets"), Vladimir Polupanov (music editor for "Argumenty i Fakty"), Maxim Kononenko (editor-in-chief of "Dni.ru"), Larisa Havkina (journalist for "Komsomolskaya Pravda"), Vladimir Matetsky (singer-songwriter and producer), Maksim Dunayevsky (composer), Larisa Dolina (singer), Alexander Malinin (singer) and Larisa Sinelshikova (media manager and producer).