President Vladimir Putin signed off on Thursday on a decree granting Russian citizenship to US 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 said in a statement. “He is well known for his warm feelings towards our country and has never hidden them.”
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Source: Pakistan Today
