Intervision returns

In the 1960s, the Intervision Singing Competition was born out of the desire to create Eastern European equivalent to the Eurovision Song Contest. Sveriges TV AB

On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the establishment and organization of the Russian Eurovision Song Contest, says the Russian news agency Tass.

The Intervision Singing Competition will be held later this year. According to the Moscow Times news site, the competition is organized in Moscow and its surrounding areas.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Russia has been appointed Chairman of the Intervision Organizing Committee Dmitri charnyšenko and Chairman of the Supervisory Board Sergei Kirijenko.

According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, more than 25 countries have expressed their interest in the competition. According to Lavrov, those interested in the countries include several Latin American countries and all BRICS countries.

The Intervision Singing Competition is familiar from the past. The competition was organized for the first time between 1965 and 1968. The competition was re -organized in 1977. For the last time competing in 1980, the last winner of the competition was the Finnish singer Marion Rung.

EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, soon decided, after the commencement of the Ukrainian invasion of attack, that Russia should not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest.

“Military measures will in no way fit in with the event that unites European peoples,” Ebu outlined in 2022.

My European Broadcasting Union, which is responsible for the Eurovision Song Contest, is a politically unprecedented .Ebu stressed in 2022 that Eurovision Song Contest is primarily a cultural event that brings together different nationalities and rejoices in diversity.

Even before the EBU’s decision, several European countries announced that they would skip the race if Russia was involved. However, this did not happen.

Source: Moscow Times