The Belarusian state broadcaster BTRC has launched its national selection for the Intervision Song Contest 2025.
Belarus has become the first country to launch its national selection for the Intervision Song Contest 2025. Belarus’s participation in the contest is being organised by BTRC, the state broadcaster of Belarus. BTRC previously competed in the Eurovision and Junior Eurovision Song Contest before it was suspended from the European Broadcasting Union due to the channel being used as a propaganda tool.
The rules of the selection are as follows:
Acts must be citizens of Belarus or have lived in Belarus for at least the past 2.5 years
Acts must be a minimum of 16 years old
Acts must have prior stage experience
Songs must be between 2 and 3 minutes in length
Songs are allowed to have pre-recorded backing vocals, but they cannot duplicate the lead voice
Songs can either have been written specifically for the contest, or have been released in 2024.
Songs must be ‘popular music’, they can include ethnic and folklore elements.
Applications for the Belarusian selection will close on March 31 at 23:59 local time. BTRC has the right to invite acts to compete in the selection.
The Belarusian representative will be selected by a focus group. The focus group will be formed of cultural and arts figures, creative workers, representatives of BTRC and others.
BTRC reserves the right, based on the results of the selection, to replace either the artist or the song that has been selected as the focus groups winner.
Belarus finished 7th in the Intervision Song Contest when it was last held in 2008. The Champions represented Belarus in Sochi, they were awarded Third Prize alongside Moldova and Turkmenistan.
Intervision 2025
More than 25 countries are reported to be interested in competing in the Intervision Song Contest. The contest is set to take place this September in the Russian capital, Moscow. The countries publicly confirmed as competing are:
Context
RTR, Channel One and Radio Dom Ostankino are all currently suspended from the European Broadcasting Union, following a unanimous decision from the Executive Committee in late May 2022. Russia’s participation in Junior Eurovision had been organised by RTR. This followed Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The event is being supported by the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Russian state broadcaster Channel One. The aims of the contest are to:
“to unite countries friendly to us, to introduce them to (Russian) culture, history, language and to demonstrate real Russian hospitality, while forming a favorable image of the organising country (Russia), as well as to acquaint the multi-million television audience with the diversity of cultures, demonstrate achievements of each country, point out the uniqueness of each, and at the same time emphasize the similarity of views, values and aspirations.”
Image Source: Eurovision.tv – Andres Putting | Source: BTRC
