At a Moscow concert hall, Shohruhmirzo Ganiyev is crooning about love and his motherland, Uzbekistan. "Put your legs together like a man," suggests his voice coach and choreographer. "And spread your ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Banished from Eurovision, Russia will launch the final of its own international song contest at President Vladimir Putin's behest on Saturday, with a Soviet-era name and acts ...

A Darwin-born singer withdrew from Russia’s version of Eurovision because of “political pressure from the Australian government”, the Intervision 2025 organisers say.

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Perhaps the Eurovision ban is starting to bite, because three years after Russia was booted from the beloved song contest following the country’s invasion of Ukraine, it is reviving a Soviet-era ...

An American R&B artist will take part in Russia's revival of a song contest billed as a rival to Eurovision, which has excluded Russian singers since the Ukraine offensive, organisers said Thursday.

In 2022 Russia was banned from competing in Eurovision after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine says Intervision is an attempt to distract the world from Russia's ongoing invasion [BBC] A ...

B. Howard will sing at Russia's Intervision contest, a project revived by President Vladimir Putin - Copyright AFP Anwar AMRO B. Howard will sing at Russia's ...