[1] Anastasia Prikhodko represented Russia with the song "Mamo", which scored 91 points in the final and finished in 11th place.

50 entries were shortlisted from the received submissions and a jury panel selected the fifteen finalists for the national final.

[4] Following the announcement of the competing acts, it was revealed that four of the selected artists: Kvatro, Polina Griffith, Tim Rocks and Venger Collective, have submitted songs in violation of the 2009 contest rules, of which they were either publicly performed or released commercially before 1 October 2008.

In the superfinal, the winner, "Mamo" performed by Anastasia Prikhodko, was determined through the votes of a jury panel.

[5][6][7] The jury consisted of Alexander Barannikov (secretary of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 organising committee), Dzhohan Pollyeva (head of the Council for Humanitarian Cooperation of CIS countries), and television and music producers Yuriy Aksyuta, Kim Breitburg, Alexander Dulov, Igor Krutoy, Alexander Lunyov, Vladimir Matetsky, Ruben Oganesov, Larisa Sinelschikova and Maxim Fadeev.

The various screens of the stage displayed Prikhodko's face being progressively aged while singing the lyrics of the song.

For the 2009 Contest, a national jury of five members was assembled by every country in order to provide 50% of the votes in the final of the competition in combination with the results of the televoting.