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 ...

“We found the reaction last year was quite embarrassing,” contest official says. MOSCOW — -- Organizers of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest are installing special anti-booing technology in ...

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 ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting on the upcoming direct peace talks with Ukraine, set to be held in Istanbul. -/Kremlin/dpa With this year's Eurovision Song Contest now over, Russia ...

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 ...

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 ...