While the event did take place, the jury could not decide on the winner of selection and ultimately opted to choose the artist internally.

The 1995 contest marked Russia's second participation following its 1994 debut entry "Vechny strannik" performed by Youddiph, which placed 9th.

[4] Evrovidenie "Pesnya-95" was the national final format developed by ORT in order to select Russia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1995.

[11] Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was televised in Russia on ORT in delay without voting sequence on 15 May 1995 and on Radio 101 with the commentary by Olesya Trifonova.

[9][14] The Russian performance featured Kirkorov on stage wearing a white shirt and black trousers,[7] joined by internal selection participants Vocal Band as backing vocalists.

[18] Giacomo Natali stated in his book Capire l'Eurovision that Russian broadcaster "[moved] his performance to the end and removed voting and results: that night, the audience from home saw the connection end with ovation of the audience for the Russian singer".

[20][21] Russia assembled a 16-member jury panel, consisting of Yury Saulsky, Igor Krutoy, Marina Khlebnikova, Lora Kvint, Andrey Bill, Natalia Shemankova, Ninel Yakovenko, Roman Karasev, Konstantin Smertin, Andrey Boltenko, Vladimir Polupanov, Irina Bogushevskaya, Ekaterina Alekseeva and three unnamed representatives of the public, to determine which countries would receive their points.