Kanye West is planning to meet with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow later this year and hold Sunday Service performances as his first-ever shows in Russia, his associate tells Billboard.
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Russia is going to be “a second home” for Ye, says Sudan: “He will be spending a lot of time out there.” Aras Agalarov, a close associate of Putin and, as president of the Crocus Group, one of Russia’s leading developers, is sometimes referred to as the “Trump of Russia” because of how he often self-brands his buildings. He and his son and business partner, Emin Agalarov, worked with Donald Trump to bring the 2013 Miss Universe pageant to Moscow and were in discussions about a Trump Tower development project in the country that failed to materialize.
Ye is working on new business deals with the Agalarovs as well, according to Sudan, and while he could not disclose the details of those discussions, he projected they would increase West’s wealth to more than $10 billion. Last March, Bloomberg reported Ye was worth $6.6 billion thanks to his lucrative deals with Adidas and Gap, but Sudan claims that figure was conservative.
Christian faith has played an important cultural role in the regime of Putin, who has positioned himself as a defender of traditional morals and invoked the Russian Orthodox Church in his speeches. After waging a
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