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Russian normally says сегодня вечером to mean “this evening / tonight (today in the evening)”.
- Сегодня = today (an adverb)
- вечером = the instrumental form of вечер (evening), used adverbially to mean in the evening.
Together сегодня вечером literally feels like “today, in the evening,” which is the natural idiomatic way to say this evening / tonight.
You can say в этот вечер, but that usually refers to a specific evening previously mentioned in context (like in a story: “On that evening …”), not the upcoming evening today in ordinary speech.
сегодня вечер is simply wrong; вечер normally can’t stand bare like that for in the evening in modern Russian.