On Monday 3 February, the Russian leader signed a decree directing officials to bring back the Intervision Song Contest in Moscow this year, with the goal of “developing international cultural a ...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to counter what he says is the decadence of modern Western culture.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this image provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out a fire following a Russian ...

Back in the USSR: Putin Revives Soviet-Era 'Eurovision' With New Allies By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the ...

Xi Jinping believes China will rule the 21st c. But he should be cautious. In 1960, the Soviet Union looked set to overtake the US, but peaked. By 1990, Japanese companies posed a new threat to US ...

Russian propaganda exhibitions in Ouagadougou African Initiative also has offices in Burkina Faso, where it frequently hosts public events. In May 2024, the group organized an exhibition in the ...

(photo credit: KACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS) Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz and not inviting surviving ...

A Russian strike on a residential building in central Ukraine killed at least 14 people, including two children, emergency services said, one of many attacks across the country this weekend.

From the outside, Norway can look like a haven of affluence, a country whose population of just 5.5 million is propped up by a gargantuan sovereign wealth fund worth nearly $2 trillion. Yet the ...

Sergey Vakulenko, who spent a decade as an executive at a Russian oil producer, and is now a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the current situation looks manageable.