MOSCOW šC Emin Agalarov, the Moscow pop star who arranged the now-infamous Trump Tower meeting in New York at the height of the 2016 election campaign, abruptly canceled his U.S. tour, citing the risk of being detained.
Agalarov said he¡¯s ready to answer any question as part of U.S. probes into alleged Russian election meddling but couldn¡¯t get assurances regarding freedom and safety before his now-abandoned swing through the U.S. He¡¯d been due to perform in New York on Jan. 26, followed by shows in Toronto, Miami and Los Angeles.
¡°I have the feeling that the U.S. side doesn¡¯t have good intentions ¡ª that they have a desire, given this anti-Russian hysteria, to turn me, a well-known person, into a circus show,¡± he said in an interview. The U.S.-educated singer was speaking at his family¡¯s sprawling convention center on the outskirts of Moscow, near where his father once planned to build a Trump Tower.
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