Putin signed a decree on the intervision competition of the song, which will be held in Moscow this year and said to senior Kremlin and Government officials to prepare for that event. China, Cuba, Brazil and other “friendly” countries are expected to participate.
Russia is prohibited from participating in Eurovision 2022. After Putin sent tens of thousands of soldiers in Ukraine, although trying to revive the intervision in more than a decade.
Unlike Eurovision, which often celebrates LGBT + topics and performers, the intervision will have a more sober tone, judging by the documents in which Reuters came, emphasizing the respect “traditional universal, spiritual and family values.
Artists may not perform songs that call for violence, humiliate the honor and dignity of society, and the political topics are required to be completely excluded from the text – stated in one of the Russian planning documents.
Putin is increasing to show Russia as defense of traditional family values and claims that the West has lost moral strongholds in search of what he sees as excessive individualism and lack of respect for religious traditions.
In Russia, strict rules now prohibit everything that is considered promoting homosexuality, while the international LGBTQ + movement is marked as an extremist organization.
Russia participated in Eurovision 23 times in 1994, but as the west of the West was constantly considered to revive the intervision from the Soviet era, especially after Conchita Wurst, the Austrian Drag Queen is popularly known as “won the Competition in 2014, year when Putin annexed the crime of Ukraine.
The intervision was originally launched under the Soviet leader Leonid in 1960s as an alternative to the Eastern Moscow Capture, gathering the Allies of Moscow in Eastern Europe and other communist nations such as Cuba.
Russian officials say numerous countries, including China, Brazil, Cuba and former Soviet republic, such as Kazakhstan, and Belarus, expressed interest in participating in the renewed music intervision competition.
According to the documents in which Reuters had insight, the performers will have up to four minutes to sing their song live in the language they want. The winner will go on tour and get a cash prize.
– The competition will be open to the participation of all countries that they want to – the document, adding that the participants must “respect the cultural, ethical and religious traditions of other people in the world.”
(Vijesti.ba / Fena)
