The entry, written by Denis Tsukerman, Ilya Prusikin and Viktor Sibrinin, was selected internally.

Russia had won the contest on one occasion in 2008 with the song "Believe" performed by Dima Bilan.

[2] Among acts rumoured by several Russian media sites to be considered by the broadcaster were Aleksandr Panayotov, Little Big, Polina Gagarina and Zivert.

[3][4] On 2 March 2020, C1R announced Little Big as the Russian entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

[6] In the end, the song "Uno" was chosen to represent Russia and was released on 12 March 2020 together with the official music video.