VLADIMIR Putin's knock-off Eurovision song contest stars a pro-war Russian singer, a former X-Factor star from Belarus, and the "Chinese Elvis".

The revived Soviet Union-era show dubbed Intervision is a West-bashing extravaganza - with 23 weird and wacky participants representing countries like India , Cuba, and even the United States .

The peculiar event is kicking off this weekend, and comes after tyrant Putin was banned from the original competition for his bloody war in Ukraine.

Typical Russian allies such as China and Brazil , as well as former Soviet republics like Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, are all sending singers to Moscow for the show.

Key Russian ally Belarus's contestant, wannabe star Nastya Kravchenko, 21, has even appeared on X-Factor - though it was the bootle

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