Russia was banned from Eurovision in 2022 after Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. The same year that Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine, an Austrian drag queen popularly known as ...

Vladimir Putin has ordered a reboot of the Soviet-era alternative to the Eurovision Song Contest, with more than a dozen countries said to be signed up. The "despot" wants his "apparatchiks" to ...

THE US will compete against China and Iran in Putin’s rip-off Eurovision song contest, according to Russian state media. Mad Vlad’s mouthpiece media made the bizarre claim that American… ...

Putin has given the green light to resurrect a Soviet era song contest in a bid to rival Eurovision.. Eurovision became a big hit with Russians throughout the 2000s, drawing in millions of TV viewers.

President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree on holding an international music contest called "Intervision" in Russia this year, after the country was banned from the Eurovision Song Contest ...

Russia took part in Eurovision 23 times from 1994 but as ties with the West steadily soured it began to consider reviving the Soviet-era Intervision, especially after Conchita Wurst, ...

This year’s Eurovision Song Contest is taking place in neutral Switzerland, but politics are center stage. While debate continues over Israel’s participation amid the war in Gaza, Russia ...

Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest has long been a controversial subject amid the current conflict in Gaza ...