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A choir teacher was exasperated with hearing slang like “67” in her middle school classroom. Rather than ban it, she asked her students to write and perform a song about it. “Some teachers get ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. On a recent summer night, hundreds of young Russians assembled on St. Petersburg’s main street to hear songs that the government had banned. It was the latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Vietnamese pop singer won top honors at Russia’ s Intervision Song Contest, a Cold-War era music festival that Moscow revived in response to being kicked out of the global Eurovision spectacle for ...

Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc has been crowned the inaugural winner of Intervision, a new Russian song contest widely perceived as a political counterpoint to Eurovision. Phuc triumphed at Moscow’s Live ...

Banished from Eurovision because of the war in Ukraine, Russia revived the Soviet-era song contest featuring acts meant to promote "traditional family values" which saw singers hailing from 23 ...

Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc has won Russia's Intervision song contest, held in Moscow on Saturday. Vietnam was among the countries participating in the Soviet-era contest, revived by President Vladimir ...