Winners of Intervision, the Russian equivalent of Eurovision, must be paid a fee of $1 million for the contest to gain popularity. This is the opinion in a conversation with the radio station “Moscow Speaks”. shared Produced by Joseph Prigozhin.
According to him, Russia needs such competition. He added that he came up with the idea of creating “Intervision” together with composer Viktor Drobysh. But the manufacturer is confident that free competitions will fail.
“The truth is that the festival will only be valuable in one respect, which is my deepest belief, if there is a prize, if there is a fee, the Grand Prix is not just a free statuette. Free cheese in a mousetrap. <…> Not only do we need to put money into competition, we also need to put money into wages. First place – one million, second place – 500 thousand, third place – 100 or 250,” Prigozhin said.
17 November Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova suggested foreign ministers decided to create a joint Eurasian film award and music competition “EurasiaVision+” or “InterVision”. Channel One General Manager Konstantin Ernst announced that the competition should be held every year and that they want it to be held for the first time in 2024.
Formerly in the State Duma It was suggested to create It is similar to Eurovision, with artists from friendly countries taking part.