This year’s Eurovision Song Contest is taking place in neutral Switzerland, but politics are center stage. While debate continues over Israel’s participation amid the war in Gaza, Russia — banned from ...

The announcements followed a meeting where several countries urged Israel’s exclusion over its conduct of the war in Gaza.

At a Moscow concert hall, Shohruhmirzo Ganiyev is crooning about love and his motherland, Uzbekistan. "Put your legs together like a man," suggests his voice coach and choreographer. "And spread your ...

Intervision, Russia’s answer to Eurovision, will stage its grand final on September 20 just outside Moscow. Russia revived the Soviet-era contest after being banned from Eurovision in 2022 following ...

Perhaps the Eurovision ban is starting to bite, because three years after Russia was booted from the beloved song contest following the country’s invasion of Ukraine, it is reviving a Soviet-era ...

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 ...

As Israel is cleared to compete, Eurovision’s future hangs in the balance - COMMENT: The European Broadcasting Union will ...

(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 ...

There were times when Eurovision used to spark joy, but in recent years, those times now feel so distant. The Eurovision ...