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joe lynn turner, promo photo for belly of the beast album

Blabbermouth reports that Joe Lynn Turner will be a member of the jury for the Russian song contest Intervision that will take place in Moscow on September 20, 2025.

Intervision 2025 is a Russian state-sponsored music competition, decreed by Russian president Vladimir Putin in February as an alternative to the popular Eurovision Song Contest, which the country was banned from in 2022 after it invaded Ukraine. The contest’s goal is to “develop international cultural and humanitarian cooperation,” per the decree. The Russian foreign ministry is in charge of promoting the contest.

The brand Intervision was used for a song competition during the Cold War as a counterpart to the Eurovision contest held in Czechoslovakia and later Poland for (mostly) Eastern Block countries. It is being revived now by the Russian authorities for seemingly similar purposes.

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.

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Posted by Nick on Friday, September 19th, 2025, filed under News. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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9 Comments to “Stone cold”:

  1. 1
    Fla76 says:

    the smell of money….

    September 19th, 2025 at 23:35
  2. 2
    Ggg says:

    **holy crap! he’s been transformed into a Putin/Lukashenka supporter, praising the violent, authoritarian Russian and Belorussian regimes all the time. That person is a total joke, I don’t even know why he’s newsworthy at all.

    September 20th, 2025 at 00:41
  3. 3
    Uwe Hornung says:

    What was that again with oily propaganda on the leaders’ lips? 🧐

    And I thought I knew you so well …

    September 20th, 2025 at 01:40
  4. 4
    AndreA says:

    He is Joe or Yul Brynner in “The Ten Commandments”?

    September 20th, 2025 at 07:30
  5. 5
    Georgivs says:

    Facepalm…

    September 20th, 2025 at 08:50
  6. 6
    Ivica says:

    My Belarusian woman
    She makes me see
    My Belarusian woman
    She’s so good to me….

    Women rule

    September 20th, 2025 at 09:42
  7. 7
    francis says:

    bonjour, tout ceci n’a aucun intérêt musical….

    September 20th, 2025 at 10:20
  8. 8
    rockdoch says:

    remember this :

    https://www.thehighwaystar.com/news/2011/03/23/dressing-up-for-tea-with-dmitry/

    September 20th, 2025 at 10:28
  9. 9
    Karin Verndal says:

    @4

    “He is Joe or Yul Brynner in “The Ten Commandments”?”
    – I had the exact same thought 😄

    I was once called a ‘stone cold crazy woman’, but I guess that phrase suits him a lot better than me 😝😃

    September 20th, 2025 at 10:32

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