What do you mean by "qualified"? I thought that she qualified to the national final?
I love Jamala's and Prikhodko's songs too but I love Kukushka more
And to add a new thing. The national tv would not pay any money to the PR activities of the song. In that case they would like to have someone with money and we know who got more money than any other, that is Prikhodko, in fact she won the Russian national final the same way two year ago.
What about Russian selection? I don't know anything about it.