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 ...
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TANTSUYUSHCHIY OSTROV (DANCING ISLAND ... MAYNES: By the early 1990s, the biggest club of them all - the Soviet Union - was set to shutter its doors. Upheaval had gripped ...