It’s a lot of music in the same title, but it’s all true: the president of Russia has signed a decree that gives rise to the song interview festival.
Russia was excluded from various competitions, events or contests, from the moment it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
One such case was the Song Eurovision Festival. Soon that year, 2022, the Russia it was left fora – And never came back. Nor will it participate this year in Switzerland.
Therefore, Vladimir Putin made a decision: the Song Interview Festival. The decree has already been signed this Monday.
The Song Interview Festival is not new. Had four editions in the 1960s and four more in the late 1970s. Czecholosvachi by Poland, but with the “finger” of Leonid Brezhnev, USSR leader – Soviet Union in these two periods.
It was an eurchase version of the East Block, a Soviet response to the “capitalist” eurovision of the song.
Now it is marked to Moscow, Russia’s capital and is supposed to be held in 2025.
According to the agency, there are several countries interested in participating. One of them is the Brazil, in addition to China, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Azerbaijan.
Detail: Azerbaijan participates in the Eurovision Festival. It will participate this year in Switzerland.
But any country can express desire to participate, as long as “Respect the cultural, ethical and religious traditions of other peoples”.
It is expected that the interview is not the “firefight” of Eurovision: the documents that Reuters consulted foresee a more sober festival, with “respect for universal, spiritual and family values”. Translating: LGBT+ Outside the stage.
In addition, songs cannot “promote violence, humiliate the honor and dignity of society and political affairs in the verses are prohibited.”
Each song will have a maximum of 4 minutes (in Eurovision it is 3) and the language is free, each artist chooses which language wants to sing from. The winner will be entitled to a tour and will receive monetary prize – in Eurovision there is no money for the winner, at least directly.
For over 10 years, it was started to talk about a return from the Song Interview Festival. Especially since, in 2014, Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Festival.
It is not the first event of its own that Russia has announced since it began to be expelled from international events.
In October 2023, also at a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin, the first edition of the Alternative to Olympic Games.
If the Song Interview Festival follows the course of the World Games of Friendship, It will never happen.
The games were scheduled for September 2024. Two months earlier, they were postponed to 2025. One month after this postponement, new postponement to the end of 2025 or 2026. In December, they were “filed”, postponed indefinitely. Never have been performed And most likely they are never realized.
