US EditionBarred from Eurovision, Russia hosts rival 'Intervision' song contest
- Russia will host the revived Intervision song contest in Moscow on September 20, featuring singers from 23 countries.
- Russia launched Intervision again after being excluded from Eurovision following Putin's 2022 troop deployment in Ukraine.
- Intervision aims to promote traditional family values and features participants from nations Russia considers friendly, including China, India, and Brazil.
- The contest’s live transmission on television and online platforms in Russia and other countries is expected to reach a total audience exceeding 4 billion people, with results determined by a panel of professional jurors.
- Intervision reflects Russia's effort to project cultural influence amid geopolitical tensions, using events to assert normalcy and new international partnerships.
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Russia’s Soviet-era rival to ‘decadent’ Eurovision born anew
MOSCOW: With artists from more than 20 countries and ambitions for a billion-plus viewers, Russia on Saturday revived its Intervision song contest, which Moscow hopes will compete with a “decadent” Eurovision. First held in the Soviet era and relaunched in February on President Vladimir Putin’s orders, the concert-as-soft-power tool was held at an arena near the Russian
Russia is excluded from the ESC, for which the Kremlin is now taking the Soviet Intervision competition out of the sinking. It is about music - and Moscow's geopolitical interests.
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Power, politics and performance: Russia's revamped Intervision song contest names a winner
Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc was crowned the winner of the newly revamped Intervision song contest — a Russian answer to Eurovision that some say is as much about politics and power as it is about performance.
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