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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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In Before mucusmaximus soils his diaper over this. [IBMMSHD]
Probably no trannies.
And no tranny violence.
The songs will probably be much better.
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Is This Contestant Really Lip Syncing? | X Factor Global
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eti-sFr2ds
Sing along - "I veesh dey owl good be Gahlivornya galz"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjxwpv4CUw
,,, 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.
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