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Russia will be represented at Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv by Yulia Samoilova
Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, which will be held in Ukraine, will be represented by Yulia Samoilova. The singer will take the song "Flame Is Burning" to the competition.
And [Russia] will be represented by Yulia Samoilova – the incredible Yulia Samoilova, who proved with her life, her work that there are no barriers for her.
- Samoilova has been disabled since childhood (she has Werding-Hoffmann spinal amyotrophy ) and uses a wheelchair. In 2014, she participated in the opening ceremony of the Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi. The year before, she was a finalist in the third season of the Factor A project (analogue of the British The X Factor).
- Sergey Lazarev represented Russia at Eurovision 2016. He took third place with the song "You are the only one", losing only to the representatives of Ukraine and Australia.