Russia is torturing Ukrainian prisoners with electric shocks to their genitals from a Soviet-era telephone in a cruel method known as making a “call to Putin,” according to a shocking United Nations ...

Russian state-backed ‘super app’ Max has launched a test version of its digital identity feature, designed to allow users to prove their age and identity and use digital documents the same way as ...

President Trump wants to engage Russia and China in nuclear arms control negotiations. Calling denuclearization “a big aim,” Trump told reporters, “Russia’s willing to do it, and I think China is ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Russia is reviving Soviet-era tactics such as forced psychiatric treatment to silence dissenters and anti-war voices in an increasingly repressive environment, a U.N. expert said on ...

With artists from more than 20 countries and ambitions for a billion-plus viewers, Russia revives its Intervision song contest. With Russia banished from Eurovision, the song contest extravaganza born ...

This weekend, more than 20 former Soviet nations competed at Intervision 2025. Putin revived the song contest after Russia was banned from Eurovision in response to its war in Ukraine.

Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc wins the revived Intervision Song Contest in Moscow with a performance inspired by a poem about bamboo. With artists from more than 20 countries and ambitions for a ...

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 ...

Intervision revives the name of a music contest that Moscow used to stage in the Soviet era with its Eastern European satellite states. The new version will feature acts from countries Russia now ...

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 ...

Russia has revived Intervision, a Soviet-era song contest, with 22 countries participating. Critics argue the event serves as a geopolitical tool, reflecting Moscow's anti-Western outlook and rivaling ...