Steven Seagal Is Now A Citizen Of Russia

[Bob]

NPR -

Russia's President Vladimir Putin issued a presidential decree Thursday that grants Russian citizenship to action-movie star Steven Seagal, fulfilling a desire that Seagal spoke about as recently as September. Putin and Seagal are longtime friends.

Putin and Seagal share a passion for martial arts: Seagal is an expert in akido, and Putin is an expert in judo. They've appeared together at martial arts demonstrations and official events, including last year's Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

In recent years, Seagal has emerged as an unlikely conduit between U.S. and Russian officials. Back in 2013, members of a U.S. congressional delegation said Seagal "opened some doors" for them as they researched anti-terrorism issues — and it later emerged that in the same year, Putin suggested making Seagal an honorary consul in California and Arizona, a position that could have allowed him to work as a go-between for Putin and President Obama.

Today, Sputnik News quotes Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying of Seagal:

"This [was his] desire, he had really applied. He had been really persistent for a long time and been asking to grant him citizenship, he is actually renown for his quite warm feelings toward our country."


http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...rtesy-of-putin

[Bob]

http://aattp.org/steven-seagal-says-...-russia-video/ - Steven Seagal Says He Prefers Putin To Obama, May Move To Russia

While shooting a movie in Romania, Seagal told Russian media that Putin’s “desire to protect the Russian-speaking people of Crimea, his assets, and the Russian Black Sea military base in Sevastopol…is very reasonable.”

Seagal also called Putin “one of the great world leaders” and said he “would like to consider him as a brother.”

[Bob]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FWZ4HPAdTew

Points/tweets

- Steven Seagal used 6 Words ON TWITTER To Blast CLINTON and her Supporters

"I stand with the AMERICAN people. I stand with my constitutional rights. I stand with VETERNS getting proper care," Seagal wrote.

Seagal wrote, "...regardless of what the administration has put out. Pres. Putin is more anti-terrorism than our leadership."

"Best thing in the world… Making one statement about freedom and getting attacked by every Dem out there…"

[TrumanCash]

A great (apparently) impromptu speech by Steven Seagal at the Western Conservative Conference in Phoenix on February 22, 2014. Short and to the point. I especially liked what he said about free speech.

[Althena]

If Hitlery wins he won't be the last one to bail.

[lucidity]

Seems to me that Segal has an eye to the future.
What neat trick... He's now got a foot on each side of the fence.

The US Empire is in economic decline... Military decline usually follows economic decline.
Russia on the other hand is going through economic growth.
There is currently a savage information war being waged against Russia.
Who will win this snarling conflict ?
It matters to you and I... we might end up the losing side.

Segal ... he can side with the victor... who ever it happens to be.

[Helene West]

So interesting about Seagal. It's just a week or so ago, upon reading an article where students at one of the UC colleges in CA, (probably Berkeley but don't remember) were barring white students from entering a part of the campus. They let every other race go and were shrieking about whiteness. I suddenly thought to myself, wouldn't that be the preeminent kicker irony if in the near future this hate-whitey thing isn't addressed - whites start applying to Russia or former soviet bloc countries to get away from this non-stop racial bs. hah, hah...The irony of life...The way Seagal is reported to have spoken it sounded like he wanted citizenship not just because he likes their culture but is seeing something really crappy about ours.

[Mike]

Stephen Seagal appears to have eaten Russia.

[markoid]

AHAHAHAAA!! @ Mike

At least the US still has Chuck Norris to save them!

[Bob]

That romance didn't last long apparently..

Steven Seagal has been banned from the Ukraine

"What's up doc?" with that?

The US action movie star Steven Seagal has been barred from entering Ukraine for five years after the Ukrainian security service (SBU) labeled him a security threat and placed him on a blacklist.

In July 2015, Seagal was declared persona non grata by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture along with some 600 other people no longer welcome in Ukraine.

The US superstar was singled out by Kiev after taking the stage during a concert in the Crimean Black Sea port city of Sevastopol in August 2014, organized by Russian biker club, the Night Wolves.

Seagal, famous for a string of action movies including Under Siege and On Deadly Ground, was awarded Russian citizenship on November 3.

From RT -

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=use2zG6psRk

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally presented the Hollywood star, whose father’s parents emigrated from Russia, with a Russian passport at the Kremlin weeks later.

Seagal is not the first celebrity to be banned from entering Ukraine as Kiev has denied entry to a range of public figures, including politicians, actors and athletes.

In 2015, the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was barred from entering Ukraine for three years in the “interests of national security.”

reference source: https://www.rt.com/news/387306-ukrai...seagal-threat/

[Jake]

Stephen Segal is making Chuck Norris Great Again...

On a side note...
I heard that Chuck Norris does not do push-ups,, rather he is bench pressing the planet...


Jake.

[Mike]

Posted by Jake (here)
Stephen Segal is making Chuck Norris Great Again...

On a side note...
I heard that Chuck Norris does not do push-ups,, rather he is bench pressing the planet...


Jake.

Breaking news. Very sad: Stephen Seagal ate Chuck Norris.

[Bob]

Posted by Mike (here)

Posted by Jake (here)
Stephen Segal is making Chuck Norris Great Again...

On a side note...
I heard that Chuck Norris does not do push-ups,, rather he is bench pressing the planet...


Jake.

Breaking news. Very sad: Stephen Seagal ate Chuck Norris.

Really mike - I never knew ! Jake you certainly crack me up ! tho..

from Tass http://tass.com/society/944915 - the Russian News Agency report

Steven Seagal laughs off Ukraine's ‘blacklisting’
Society & Culture May 06, 15:28
"In addition to my black belt, I'm now on a black list," said Seagal, a spokesperson for the actor quoted him as saying without providing further details



"WASHINGTON, May 6. /TASS/. Well-known American actor and martial artist Steven Seagal has reacted ironically to the news that he had been denied entry to Ukraine, a spokesperson for the actor told TASS.

"In addition to my black belt, I'm now on a black list," she quoted Seagal as saying without providing further details.

On Friday, Ukrainian media reported that Ukraine’s Security Service had banned him from the country for five years.

In November 2016, Seagal was granted Russian citizenship."

[Bob]

What is the issue with the Ukraine banning people?

Ukrainian government blacklists Russian actors and musicians

With Seagal, he was friendly with Putin - a reason to ban according to Ukrainian officials..

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"The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture published a list last weekend of 14 singers and actors whose work will be banned from appearing on radio, television or film. Their songs will be pulled from Ukrainian radio and permits for screening their films will be withdrawn.

The blacklist was drawn up based on recommendations from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Security Service of Ukraine, the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio. It is expected that the blacklist will grow in size as the culture ministry reviews appeals from the security services.

The artists on the list, all Russian citizens, are accused of posing a threat to Ukraine’s “national security.” The ban on them is a cultural component of the offensive being waged by the United States and its NATO allies to remove Ukraine from Russia’s sphere of influence. The government led by Petro Poroshenko is an effective puppet of the American government, waging a war against pro-Russian separatists and promoting far-right wing Ukrainian nationalist forces.

Those on the cultural blacklist have all, to varying degrees, given support to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as the pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, who have been in conflict with government-backed forces since the spring of 2014.

The separatists in eastern Ukraine are opposed to the pro-Western regime in Kiev that was brought to power in February last year in a US and NATO backed-coup that ousted pro-Russian President Victor Yanukovych. While a ceasefire was signed earlier this year, irregular fighting continues to result in casualties and deaths on both sides.

As popular hostility toward his regime over austerity policies, Ukraine’s spiraling economic crisis, and the human and financial costs of the war in the Donbass grows, Poroshenko is attempting to whip up anti-Russian hysteria and foment cultural terror in the country, which has a large Russian-speaking population.

Among the most notable of those on the blacklist is French actor Gerard Depardieu who was granted citizenship by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013. Depardieu has been a vocal defender of Putin and has opposed the pro-Western regime in Kiev. In July, the Ukrainian government banned him from entering the country until 2020.

The list includes Russian actors Sergei Bezrukov and Mikhail Boyarsky, and singers Oleg Gazmanov and Iosif Kobzon. They were among a number of Russian cultural figures who signed a letter in March 2014 supporting the annexation of Crimea in the aftermath of the Maidan coup.

Kobzon, who is a deputy in the State Duma, was added to the European Union’s list of sanctioned individuals in February for performing concerts for separatist leaders in his native Donetsk, as well as in Crimea, after Russia’s annexation of the territory.

Ivan Okhobystin, Grigory Leps, Vladimir Kucherenko, Yegor Kholmogorov, Mikhail Khazin, Valeriya Perfilova, Iosif Prigozhin, Nikolay Rastorguyev, and Mikhail Porechenkov are also among those who will be subject to censorship in Ukraine. Stas Piekha, another popular Russian singer who was to perform in Odessa this Saturday, was barred from entering the country.

While Ukraine’s government is attempting to erase the country’s deep cultural and political ties to Russia in the service of the interests of Western imperialism, its history is also being rewritten for the same purposes.

The release of the cultural blacklist follows the passage of legislation in April that rehabilitated Nazi collaborationist forces, including Stepan Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUM) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Forces that carried out massacres during World War II in collaboration with the Germans are now protected from public criticism.

At the same time the government banned the display of all communist symbols in the former Soviet Republic. The law officially criminalizes thousands of street names, public squares, monuments, statues and artwork that commemorate the country’s history as part of the Soviet Union. Those who sell communist souvenirs or sing the International face five years in prison, while those belonging to communist organizations could be imprisoned for 10 years.

Since the passage of legislation more than 100 statues commemorating Vladimir Lenin and other leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution have been pulled down. In June, members of the neo-fascist Right Sector militia in the eastern city of Sloviansk pulled down a statue of Lenin over the objections of 4,000 residents who signed a petition opposing its destruction."

Tit for Tat - Ukraine bans, Russia bans. They go on back and forth..

reference from: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/201.../ukra-a10.html