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 intended to promote ...

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 ...

When Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc held aloft the crystal cup trophy in Moscow’s Live Arena on Saturday night, he became the inaugural winner of new song contest Intervision — a Russian answer to ...

Vietnam's Duc Phuc lifts the trophy as he celebrates winning the "Intervision" song contest in Moscow on Sunday. - Olesya Kurpyayeva/AFP/Getty Images With cheering crowds, glowing lights, a hint of ...

MOSCOW − Vietnam was crowned the winner of the Russian-hosted Intervision song contest in the early hours of Sunday morning, a competition backed by President Vladimir Putin and conceived as a ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Singers from 26 nations will compete on Saturday in the kitschy cocktail of pop and politics that is the Eurovision song contest, with a bearded Austrian drag queen battling ...

“We found the reaction last year was quite embarrassing,” contest official says. MOSCOW — -- Organizers of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest are installing special anti-booing technology in ...

In February, Putin ordered the revival of Intervision, a Soviet-era regional musical contest based on "traditional family values," after Moscow was excluded from the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022 ...

When Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc held aloft the crystal cup trophy in Moscow’s Live Arena on Saturday night, he became the inaugural winner of new song contest Intervision — a Russian answer to ...