The United States has confirmed its participation in Intervision 2025, the Russian version of Eurovision, with the artist Brandon Howard, an American singer who has been speculated to be the son of Michael Jackson. The event will take place in Moscow on September 20 and raises many questions about its cultural and political meanings. • What is Intervision and why is it back now? Intervision was the Soviet alternative to Eurovision, organized between 1965 and 1980 in communist Czechoslovakia.