It was all about the video presentation. In the Ruusian one there was just the right amount of ex prostitute-slaves looking appropriately slutty, at one point the attractive blonde presenter could be seen naked in a bath tub. They basically whored their way there. I imagine the chick presenting the video had previously fucked haf the voting judges and when she sufddenly appeared in the video they all shit themselves and promptly voted for Russia, a kind of subtle blackmail.