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Russia hopes its Intervision song contest will be Eurovision without the ‘woke’
['The Christian Science Monitor', 'Fred Weir']
Christian Science Monitor | World
For Europe – along with a handful of other countries – the annual international song competition has long been Eurovision: a contest among dozens of musicians in a glitzy spectacle that draws more than 150 million watchers.
But for Russia, Eurovision has been off the table since 2022, when it was banned due to its invasion of Ukraine.
So Moscow has launched its own version of Eurovision, with a more global – though somewhat less inclusive – bent.
Musicians from 23 countries will perform this Saturday at an arena near Moscow in the new Intervision international song contest.
Its latest effort, Intervision, looks to be a more international – if less liberal – version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
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