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Kanye West anuncia que dará dos conciertos en Rusia: es la primera gran estrella en hacerlo tras la invasión a Ucrania

El rapero estadounidense Kanye West anunció que ofrecerá dos conciertos este octubre en San Petersburgo, Rusia, según informó el sitio web oficial de la gira 2026 del controvertido cantante.

West se convierte así en la primera gran estrella occidental en llevar su gira de conciertos a Rusia luego de la invasión rusa a Ucrania en 2022.

Los dos conciertos de West tendrán lugar en el Gazprom Arena de San Petersburgo el sábado 10 y el domingo 11 de octubre. La gira tiene por nombre “Ye Live Concert Tour 2026”.

Según un reporte de BBC, las entradas para los conciertos en la Gazprom Arena, con capacidad para 70.000 personas, se agotaron en pocas horas tras el anuncio del lunes. Los precios oscilaron entre 9.000 rublos (US$ 113) y 160.000 rublos (US$ 1.880).

En abril se cancelaron tres conciertos de West en el Festival Wireless de Londres, lo que ameritó la clausura de este evento, luego de que las autoridades británicas impidieran la entrada del cantante al Reino Unido. Políticos y líderes de la comunidad judía protestaron contra los espectáculos de West, quien en el pasado ha sido objeto de controversia por vender camisetas con esvásticas en su sitio web en 2025 y por confesar en 2022 que fue admirador de Hitler.

A raíz de la debacle en el Festival Wireless en Londres, la gira 2026 de West se resintió: se cancelaron conciertos en Francia, Polonia, Italia y la República Checa, pero los shows en España, Portugal, Países Bajos, Turquía y Albania se realizaron sin incovenientes. El canal RTVE en España explicó, en una reseña del concierto en Madrid, que un 60 % de los asistentes al show eran extrajeron que no pudieron ver espectáculos del artista en sus países de origen.

Músicos como Tyga, DaBaby, Akon, Lil Pump y Jason Derulo se han presentado recientemente en Rusia, pero Kanye West es el primer artista occidental de su nivel en presentarse en el país tras la invasión de Ucrania.

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Flushed antique wedding band returned to owner after NJ Transit ride

Click here for updates on this story    NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- A woman was reunited Monday with a wedding band she lost nearly a month ago in a bathroom aboard an NJ Transit train. A coordinated effort by transit employees helped recover the treasured ring.Julie Angelicola visited the NJ Transit Customer Service Center at Penn Station to retrieve the ring, which she believed had been flushed down a train toilet while she was washing her hands."So I'm kind of meticulously getting all of this soap off of my hands with toilet paper and literally going finger by finger, and crumpling it all up, trying to do it quickly - threw it in the toilet, flushed the toilet, went back to my seat," Angelicola said.After returning to her seat, she realized her wedding band was missing and suspected it had been flushed away. She reported the loss to NJ Transit and hoped it would somehow be found.The ring held special meaning for Angelicola and her husband. The wedding band dates to 1905 and was purchased at an antique shop. Angelicola said the couple was surprised to discover initials engraved inside that matched their nicknames for each other.Finding the ring required the efforts of multiple NJ Transit teams."My superintendent came to me and told me what was going on, and I said, well, we gotta shop the car immediately and get it back to the shop so we can try to see if we can find it," said David DeGennaro, general superintendent of equipment at the Meadows Maintenance Complex.According to NJ Transit employees, the train was taken out of service so crews could inspect the toilet system and search for the missing band."What we do is put it on the jacks, jack it up, put the toilet tank out. We sent it right to the treatment plant, opened the top of it, and that's when we saw the ring," said Eric Sanders, a service and inspection manager.Employees said that when the tank was opened, the wedding ring was sitting on top.The ring was ultimately retrieved by employee Sharohn Dixon. On Monday, Angelicola met some of the workers involved in the recovery effort at Penn Station before being reunited with the ring."I just could not believe it. I was so excited and felt really lucky that they cared to find it, and now even meeting everyone saying, 'Oh, we took the train out of service '- that's pretty exceptional," Angelicola said.After nearly a month apart, Angelicola left Penn Station with her wedding band back in hand.Please note: This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate and does not contain original CNN reporting. This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.
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