Limp Bizkit’s deliberate Might thirty first, 2026 live performance in Tallinn, Estonia has been canceled over singer Fred Durst’s previous assist of Russia and Vladimir Putin.
In 2012, Durst married Crimean-born Russian make-up artist Kseniya Beryazina, and appeared to talk in assist of Russia’s 2014 annexation of the area from Ukraine, even holding up a “Crimea = Russia” banner at a present in 2015. As ThePRP factors out, in a tweet that 12 months, Durst wrote, “There are nice folks in all places. I’ve met many Russians, in Russia, which might be excited to study extra about America.”
Durst, who divorced Beryazina in 2019, additionally spoke extremely of Russian president Vladimir Putin, as soon as praising him as “an ideal man with clear ethical ideas and a pleasant individual,” in response to the location ERR Information. Because of the banner and the sort phrases about Putin, the Limp Bizkit frontman was banned from getting into the Ukraine for 5 years starting in 2015.
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A be aware from the live performance promoter reads, “We inform you that because of circumstances past the organizer’s management, the Limp Bizkit live performance deliberate for Might 31, 2026, is canceled. Our apologies!”
The cancellation appeared to happen after strain from Estonia’s Overseas Ministry, with Minister of Overseas Affairs Margus Tsahkna stating, “My place is evident, and I’ll repeat it: Russia is the aggressor, and Crimea is occupied by Russia. Those that justify Russia’s aggression and the occupation of a neighboring nation are usually not welcome in Estonia. They haven’t any place on Estonian phases and shouldn’t be incomes revenue right here.”
He added, “Live performance and cultural occasion organizers should additionally perceive this. This has been Estonia’s clear stance, and this precept has been adopted for a number of years already. I hope that live performance organizers will act accordingly now as nicely.”
Liisi Rohtung, a spokesperson for Estonia’s Ministry of Tradition, informed the nation’s information outlet Kroonika, “It’s unacceptable for folks to carry out in Estonia who assist a state whose president is the topic of a global arrest warrant.”
Relating to Durst’s stance on Russia and Putin, Gunnar Viese of the live performance promotion firm Baltic Reside Company reasoned, “The one manner we will clarify it’s that on the time (till 2019), Fred Durst was married to a Russian Crimean girl and evidently dwelling in a distorted info bubble.”
Equally, Disturbed’s latest live performance in Brussels, Belgium was canceled by an area mayor over fears that singer David Draiman’s pro-Israel stance would incite violent protests across the venue.
Within the meantime, Limp Bizkit, who’re mourning the latest passing of their bassist Sam Rivers, are set to tour Latin America starting later this month.
