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KVN (, an abbreviation of , ''Klub Vesyolykh i Nakhodchivykh''", "Club of the Merry and Inventive" people) is a Russian humor TV show where teams (usually teams of students) compete by giving funny answers to questions, improvisations, prepared sketches. The program has been aired by Channel One since 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when a few programs were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensively anti-Soviet and banned the KVN for fourteen years. The show was revived during the Perestroika era, in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running programs on Russian TV. KVN AS A GAME The game of KVN is a turn-based task-based team competition in front of live audience judged by panel of judges. Typically, each team is asked to complete 4-5 assignments such as:
Sometimes other contests are played, but they are very rare. A panel of judges, usually comprised of well-known celebrities, actors and writers, evaluates performances on wit, humor, production values and spectators reaction and declares a winner by awarding points to the teams. In the Premier-League the jury consists only of famous KVN players. KVN AS A COMPETITION Groups of KVN teams are organized into several Leagues, where they compete annually for the League Champion title. KVN is so popular that there are literally hundreds of Leagues around the globe. To organize the movement, the KVN Union created a structure of regional and multi-regional arrangements of Leagues. Games of 2 Leagues are regularly broadcast on Russian Channel One: the Major League and the Premier-League, other Leagues are broadcast on local channels. Winner of the Major League (Vysshaya Liga ) is declared the Champion of the Club. There are other KVN competitions outside the Leagues: the KVN Festival (KiViN) is held in Sochi every January and attracts hundreds of teams from around the world, this is where teams are arranged into Leagues for the Season, the Musical Festival which is called "Singing KiViN" (Golosyaschiy KiViN, ) is held every July in Jurmala , Latvia where teams are competing to win KiViNs, which are also very prestigious prizes, the Summer Cup or Supercup is played usually in August every year in a different place, usually in Sochi and only Major League Champions are allowed to compete (with two exceptions, when in 2003 a unique team comprising of famous KVN players competed (and also won) and 2007, when a Finalist was invited), another game is held every year in November to celebrate KVN's birthday and is called the Specproject (pronounced "Spetsproyekt"). Many places in the CIS have Leagues independent from KVN Union and conduct their own competitions, the same is said about KVN outside the CIS which has no connection to KVN Union. KVN AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON KVN's reach is impressive. According to the official site of KVN Union :
For more than 20 years TV broadcasts of KVN games receive the highest ratings in Russia. The popularity of the game is so high that even politicians use it as an opportunity to gain extra points, both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin attended games played before the elections. The game of KVN helps in interstate relationships. The CIS - Israel game broadcast on September 19, 1992 helped in warming up relationships between two countries. KVN became part of the culture - it can be illustrated by the fact that it became game of choice in Russian-speaking communities around the globe. Also, the president of the club, Alexander Maslyakov, received one of the highest (if not the highest) award from Vladimir Putin , the President Of Russia , for hosting the game for the long time of 45 years. KVN AROUND THE WORLD Since Perestroika opened Russian borders for emigrants, KVN reached Israel, , Berkley and New York University (NYU) (the very first League Champion). KVN Israel is comprised from two Leagues with 16 teams from different towns. The German League has over 25 teams and calls its competitions European KVN Championships, because of the teams from France, the Netherlands and Greece playing there. EXTERNAL LINKS
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