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Barred from Eurovision, Russia hosts rival ‘Intervision’ song contest
Reuters ^ | Sep 20, 2025

Posted on 09/21/2025 8:23:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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 “traditional family values.”

Singers at “Intervision” will hail from 23 countries accounting for more than half the world’s population, including China, India and Brazil, and compete for a cash prize of 30 million roubles ($360,000).

Russia has been excluded from the Eurovision song contest since Putin ordered tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022. This year, Putin announced his rival contest, with a top Kremlin aide named to head the supervisory board. Kyiv has called the event “an instrument of hostile propaganda.”

The show will be broadcast live on Russian television. The Russian organizers say it will also be available either over the internet or on TV in other countries with a combined population of more than 4 billion people, although they have not released a list of foreign broadcasters that plan to carry it.

Songs can be performed in any language. A professional jury of representatives from each country will decide the outcome, rather than the viewing public.

Intervision revives the name of a music contest that Moscow used to stage in the Soviet era with its Eastern European satellite states. The new version will feature acts from countries Russia now considers friendly, including Belarus, Cuba, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the UAE and Venezuela.

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1 posted on 09/21/2025 8:23:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

In Before mucusmaximus soils his diaper over this. [IBMMSHD]


2 posted on 09/21/2025 8:28:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil

Probably no trannies.


3 posted on 09/21/2025 8:30:50 PM PDT by ebshumidors ( !)
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To: ebshumidors

And no tranny violence.


4 posted on 09/21/2025 8:32:37 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The songs will probably be much better.


5 posted on 09/21/2025 9:05:20 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican
Sign up for Putin Net early everybody!

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6 posted on 09/21/2025 9:14:48 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: MinorityRepublican

7 posted on 09/21/2025 10:01:23 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: dfwgator

Is This Contestant Really Lip Syncing? | X Factor Global
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eti-sFr2ds


8 posted on 09/21/2025 10:02:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MinorityRepublican

9 posted on 09/21/2025 10:05:11 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MinorityRepublican
,,, this made me think immediately of the Red Army Choir's version of the Beach Boys hit "California Girls".

Sing along - "I veesh dey owl good be Gahlivornya galz"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjxwpv4CUw

10 posted on 09/21/2025 10:12:27 PM PDT by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Kyiv has called the event “an instrument of hostile propaganda.”

,,, that sounds a bit Pyongyangish. Putin has simply made a decision to inject some lightness into the reality of knowing it's money that could otherwise pay for a few more funerals of Russian infantry soldiers.

11 posted on 09/21/2025 10:21:29 PM PDT by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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To: ebshumidors
Correct.
The Eurovision contest is essentially a tranny love fest.
Putin doesn't have time for that nonsense.
12 posted on 09/21/2025 10:35:28 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Diversity is our strength”

cept if you are from Russia, or the BRICS....


13 posted on 09/22/2025 3:59:11 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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