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Rapper Kanye West's concert in St. Petersburg drew criticism from Russian public figures due to his use of symbols of Nazi Germany and offensive remarks about veterans and the memory of the siege of Leningrad.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, supported the negative position of director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov about the concert of rapper Kanye West in St. Petersburg. She posted a fragment of the interview on her Telegram channel.
Zakharova indignantly emphasized that on May 8, 2025, the performer released a video in which he used Hitler’s words. In addition, she recalled that the artist sells merchandise with a swastika.
At the same time, Zakharova cited the words of Mikhalkov, who focused on the humiliation and insult by West’s work of people who survived the siege of Leningrad. “I would add to these words [of Mikhalkov] that in other cities of our country people also preserve historical memory,” she concluded.
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