{"id":35947,"date":"2013-09-20T22:42:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=35947"},"modified":"2013-09-20T22:42:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:42:29","slug":"selena-gomez-cancels-shows-in-russia-upon-visa-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=35947","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez Cancels Shows in Russia Upon Visa Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/selena-gomez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-35945\" alt=\"selena-gomez\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/selena-gomez.jpg\" width=\"236\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/selena-gomez.jpg 657w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/selena-gomez-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s quite ironic how after actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/wentworth_miller\/\">Wentworth Miller<\/a> and diva <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/cher\/\">Cher<\/a> declined invitations from Russia to attend a film festival and open the Sochi Olympics, respectively, now there are reports that the Eurasian country has turned down a visa request by pop star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/selena_gomez\/\">Selena Gomez<\/a> to stage a couple of shows there. As a result of the visa denial, the 21-year-old entertainer has canceled her supposed gigs at St. Petersburg&#8217;s IcePalace on September 23 and at Moscow&#8217;s Olimiisky Stadium on September 25.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/madonna\/\">Madonna<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/lady_gaga\/\">Lady GaGa<\/a>&#8216;s onstage expression of support for the Russian LGBT community during their 2012 shows there, the Russian government has grown more cautious about concert performers coming over and openly speaking out against Russia&#8217;s anti-gay legislation. They have not taken exception to Gomez, who they think will also likely use her upcoming concert as a platform to express her stance on gay rights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This cancellation of Selena Gomez&#8217;s visa shows that the Russian government is sensitive and on the defense, and shows that the pressure from people all around the world and the backlash against these laws is strong,&#8221; said gay rights activist John Becker in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s quite ironic how after actor Wentworth Miller and diva Cher declined invitations from Russia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}