{"id":2037,"date":"2025-02-09T09:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T09:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/vladimir-putin-revives-traditional-soviet-era-eurovision-alternative\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T09:23:47","slug":"vladimir-putin-revives-traditional-soviet-era-eurovision-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/vladimir-putin-revives-traditional-soviet-era-eurovision-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin revives &#039;traditional&#039; Soviet-era Eurovision alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-02-09 09:23:46<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Vladimir Putin has ordered the revival of the Soviet-era alternative to the Eurovision Song Contest.<BR><br \/>\nThe Russian president signed a decree earlier this week instructing officials to oversee the return of the Intervision Song Contest in Moscow this year with the goal of &#8220;developing international cultural and humanitarian cooperation&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nPresidential envoy Mikhail Shvydkoi previously stated that &#8220;almost 20 countries&#8221; had agreed to take part &#8211; including Brazil, China, Cuba and India.<BR><br \/>\nRussia was banned from competing in Eurovision in 2022 following the invasion of Ukraine and Kremlin officials are seeking to portray the Intervision contest as a &#8220;traditional values&#8221; alternative to the established competition.<BR><br \/>\nEurovision expert Dean Vuletic said: &#8220;For Russia, it&#8217;s an expression of soft power. This is a challenge to Eurovision&#8217;s status as the world&#8217;s biggest popular music contest.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-02-09 09:23:46 Vladimir Putin has ordered the revival of the Soviet-era alternative to the Eurovision Song Contest. The Russian president signed a decree earlier this week instructing officials to oversee&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}