Moscow Can’t Stop the Music

A rock group named Stoptime played recent anti-war songs as well as an old anthem—originally by the Soviet-era band Kino—that ...
The Kyiv Independent on MSN

By reviving Soviet-era music contest, Russia flaunts its defiance of Western isolation

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 ...
Anadolu Agency

FACTBOX - Russia revives Soviet-era Intervision song contest

Russia has revived the “Intervision” international song contest, a Cold War-era project once seen as the socialist bloc’s answer to Eurovision, staging its 2025 debut in Moscow with Vietnam’s Duc Phuc ...
NPR

Pianist Inna Faliks traces musical odyssey from Soviet Ukraine via Faustian fantasy

When Inna Faliks fled the Soviet Union with her family at the age of 10, she carried precious cargo: Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. The subversive fantasy recasts the tale of Faust's ...
The Express Tribune

Soviet-era stage revived to rival Eurovision

First created in the Soviet era as a counterpart to Eurovision, Intervision was revived in February and now returns as part ...
The New York Times

The Wildly Subversive Music of Soviet Ukraine

An archival label in the United States was going to release a huge compilation of records from the U.S.S.R. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. By Grayson Haver Currin Eugene Hutz still owns his copy of ...
KNAU Arizona Public Radio

Russia revives Soviet-era song contest

This weekend, more than 20 former Soviet nations competed at Intervision 2025. Putin revived the song contest after Russia was banned from Eurovision in response to its war in Ukraine.