
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced the impossibility of holding rapper Kanye West’s concerts in the country due to his glorification of Nazism and anti-Semitism.
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Previously, the Say Agency company announced West's planned concerts in St. Petersburg and sold tickets, but the arena denied the existence of contracts.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that rapper Kanye West’s concerts are impossible in any city in the country. She announced this on the air of the Solovyov Live show.
“He was glorifying Nazism, [the head of Nazi Germany Adolf] Hitler, the Third Reich, anti-Semitism and racism,” Zakharova explained the reason for the ban on West’s concerts.
Say Agency announced West's concerts at the Gazprom Arena in St. Petersburg on October 10 and 11. She sold more than 100 thousand tickets for two shows, after which Gazprom Arena made a statement that it had not entered into rental agreements for the dates of the event, which means it could not take place.

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