Kobzon doubt that he will get a U.S. visa

Singer and Duma deputy Iosif Kobzon not expect a visa to the U.S., where he will get to go on tour, but with a request to the message still turn and go to the interview. Previously the organizing company has Touring Artists in the U.S. Russian-American Consulting Corporation the media that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security informed Kobzon entry permits and sent the application to the State Department. "For now, the question of granting the visa, but no matter what is not ready, at its end, nothing has changed - wanted .. Are they still, unlike trial only for the actual question," - said RIA Novosti on Tuesday Kobzon. Joseph Kobzon Singer explained that the attempted Russian-American Consulting Corporation to organize his tour with the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble Russian Interior Ministry in the United States - in New York, Chicago and Boston, "received a petition for a, with which they went to the State Department working visa category P-3 ". "So they have already signed a contract with the rooms and asked me a visa. And I will ask the same request to the embassy in February and then be interviewed in March and decide or not to give. But I think that . not give now, when 18 years of not giving me a visa for no reason, I do not believe that they now change their attitude towards the issue of optimism So I do not have, but the desire is there, and the hope, even , "-. Kobzon said. Category obtain a visa before traveling to the United States, especially those who are planning to implement the cultural and educational activities. The U.S. State Department does not comment on the situation with the visa Kobzon. Last Kobzon was on tour in the U.S. in 1994. In 1995, the State Department revoked his visa, multiple entry, arguing that the possible participation of the singer "to control illegal transactions with any of the drugs." On As noted by the organizers of the tour, "the cause of the informal solutions as a possible connection with the singer of Russian organized crime." Russia has repeatedly raised the issue of the U.S. refusal to grant a visa to the artist. As expected, the organizers of the Tour - Schedule 1 February in New York, the public campaign in support of a visa for the singer and his upcoming tour in the United States known - President of the Russian-American Consulting Corporation Andrew Shuranov and producer Leo Trachtenberg. The organizers said the upcoming tour Kobzon plans to complete his overseas touring.