A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...

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How well do you know Soviet songs? Russian musician Anton Tulsky revives old and popular songs in an original way trying to confuse the listeners by adding foreign sounds. Can you guess what songs ...

Launched under the former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the Intervision Song Contest took place in Czechoslovakia (1965 to 1968) and later in Sopot, Poland (1977 to 1980), replacing the Sopot ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Feb. 3 ordering the revival of the Intervision song contest, the Soviet Union's equivalent to Eurovision. The Eurovision Song Contest banned ...