Two young Russian girls have landed a viral hit with their song "Sigma Boy". Kiev describes the catchy tune as a "weapon" in Moscow's information war. This is what's behind it. Dancing on a stage in ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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

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 ...

A Vietnamese pop star won the Intervision Song Contest in Moscow on Saturday. The United States was meant to participate, but politics intervened. By Alex Marshall Ivan Nechepurenko and Alina Lobzina ...

MOSCOW − Vietnam was crowned the winner of the Russian-hosted Intervision song contest in the early hours of Sunday morning, a competition backed by President Vladimir Putin and conceived as a ...