Iosif Kobzon, known as ‘Russia’s Sinatra’, who has sung in rebel-held Ukraine, accused of hypocrisy for seeking treatment abroad despite anti-western rhetoricItaly has confirmed it has given a visa to the sanctioned Russian singer and MP Iosif Kobzon after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, reportedly intervened to help him go to the European Union for cancer treatment.The EU slapped a travel ban and asset freeze on Kobzon, a celebrated crooner who is often called the “Russian Frank Sinatra”, in February. The performer had visited the rebel-held Donetsk region, near his birthplace, in October for a concert in support of pro-Russian …read more
Source: The Guardian
