{"id":55986,"date":"2013-12-03T19:02:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=55986"},"modified":"2013-12-03T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:02:54","slug":"elton-johns-tour-of-russia-on-verge-of-collapse-after-singer-makes-50-pages-of-demands-and-pledges-to-show-solidarity-with-persecuted-gay-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=55986","title":{"rendered":"Elton John&#8217;s tour of Russia on verge of collapse after singer makes 50 pages of demands and pledges to show solidarity with persecuted gay community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Elton-John-partner-David-Furnish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55982\" alt=\"\u0537\u056c\u0569\u0578\u0576 \u054b\u0578\u0576, \u057c\u0578\u0582\u057d\u0561\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576\u0575\u0561\u0576 \u057f\u0578\u0582\u0580, \u0576\u0578\u0582\u0575\u0576\u0561\u057d\u0565\u057c\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Elton-John-partner-David-Furnish.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Elton-John-partner-David-Furnish.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Elton-John-partner-David-Furnish-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Elton-John-partner-David-Furnish-317x300.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Elton John is due to perform in Russia this Friday and Saturday \u2013 but the concerts could be called off by local officials if they believe his performances will break their \u2018gay propaganda\u2019 laws.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Sir Elton being one of the most famous performers in the world, having sold more than 250 million records worldwide, if officials suspect he\u2019s going to use his appearances to rail against Russia\u2019s new rulings, they will pull the plug, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting Russian paper Your Day, it reports that preparations for the concerts \u2013 in Moscow&#8217;s Crocus City Hall and Kazan &#8211; have already been a considerable expense.<\/p>\n<p>The rider \u2013 a list of requests \u2013 apparently runs to 50 pages and includes his hotel dressing room in Moscow being turned into a \u2018paradise garden\u2019 populated by \u2018decorative birds\u2019 and trees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nSir Elton said he wanted to perform in Russia to support the gay community.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, anti-gay campaigners warned Elton not to wear &#8216;flamboyant&#8217; clothes at his planned concert in Krasnodar in July.\u00a0 The concert was later cancelled when the singer fell ill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Elton John is due to perform in Russia this Friday and Saturday \u2013 but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":55982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[1579,4567,13843],"class_list":["post-55986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-elton-john","tag-gay-2","tag-russia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55986","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=55986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}