Opening the 2025 Intervision Song Contest in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin framed the event as a celebration of unity through music. But the spectacle carried another message: Russia is ...

Vietnam's Duc Phuc celebrates after winning the International Music Competition "Intervision" at the Live Arena outside Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. (AP ...

Russia was banned from various cultural and sporting events after it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

MOSCOW (AP) — Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc won the inaugural Intervision song contest in Moscow taking home 30 million rubles, approximately $360,000 U.S. dollars. Grab your own Koofr 1TB cloud storage ...

(CNN) — With cheering crowds, glowing lights, a hint of political intrigue and a winning act in Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc, Russia’s answer to the Eurovision song contest – “Intervision” – gave off ...

Russia will launch the final of its own international song contest on Saturday having been banned from Eurovision. The new competition, which comes at the behest of President Vladimir Putin, intends ...

When Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc held aloft the crystal cup trophy in Moscow’s Live Arena on Saturday night, he became the inaugural winner of new song contest Intervision — a Russian answer to ...

Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc has been crowned the inaugural winner of Intervision, a new Russian song contest widely perceived as a political counterpoint to Eurovision. Phuc triumphed at Moscow’s Live ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc won the inaugural Intervision song contest in Moscow taking home 30 million rubles, approximately $360,000 U.S. dollars. Its founder says that, despite closing ...