Vladimir Putin grants American action star Steven Seagal Russian citizenship

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SOURCE: THE DAILY MAIL

URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3900924/Putin-grants-action-star-Steven-Seagal-Russian-citizenship.html


President Vladimir Putin signed off Thursday on a decree granting Russian citizenship to American action hero actor Steven Seagal, the latest high-profile passport handout to a Western celebrity.

Hollywood star Seagal and judo-loving Kremlin tough guy Putin have struck up a bromance in recent years, with Seagal visiting Russia repeatedly and defending Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.

'He was asking quite insistently and over a lengthy period to be granted citizenship,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.

'He is well known for his warm feelings towards our country and has never hidden them.'

Seagal is the latest in a string of high-profile Westerners to be granted Russian citizenship after buddying up with Putin.

Veteran French actor Gerard Depardieu was given a Russian passport in 2013 after the star became a tax exile in ire over rate hikes in his native country.

Putin has also handed out citizenship to American boxer Roy Jones Jr after sipping tea with him in Crimea and to American mixed martial artist Jeff Monson.

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