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Hollywood actor Seagal joins pro-Kremlin party, proposes tougher laws

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Reuters
30 May, 2021, 09:00 pm
Last modified: 30 May, 2021, 09:05 pm

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Hollywood actor Seagal joins pro-Kremlin party, proposes tougher laws

Seagal received a party membership card of an alliance named Just Russia - Patriots - For Truth on Saturday

Reuters
30 May, 2021, 09:00 pm
Last modified: 30 May, 2021, 09:05 pm
U.S. actor Steven Seagal attends a meeting of the "A Just Russia - For Truth" party in Moscow, Russia May 29, 2021. Picture taken May 29, 2021. Press service of the "A Just Russia - For Truth" party/Handout via REUTERS
U.S. actor Steven Seagal attends a meeting of the "A Just Russia - For Truth" party in Moscow, Russia May 29, 2021. Picture taken May 29, 2021. Press service of the "A Just Russia - For Truth" party/Handout via REUTERS

Hollywood actor Steven Seagal, a long-time admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has joined a pro-Kremlin party, the party said on Sunday.

Seagal received a party membership card of an alliance named Just Russia - Patriots - For Truth on Saturday, a video released by the party showed. It was formed earlier this year, when three leftist parties, all of which support Putin, merged into one.

Seagal, a Russian citizen since 2016, proposed a crackdown on businesses that damage the environment.

"Without being able to arrest people, when we just fine them, they are probably making more money off the production of the things that are defiling the environment," said in his welcome speech at a party event.

The party controls a faction in the lower house of the Russian parliament and plans to take part in a parliamentary election in September.

Seagal, a US-born martial artist, is best known for producing and starring in action movies, while Putin, who granted him the citizenship, is a fan of martial arts.

At Saturday's ceremony, Seagal posed for pictures next to one of the party leaders, Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin, who enrolled in an army of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and admitted to commanding a combat unit in a conflict that has killed 14,000 people in seven years.

In 2018, Russia tasked Seagal with improving humanitarian ties with the United States at a time when relations between the two countries have deteriorated to their worst level since the Cold War.

As a Russian representative, Seagal visited Venezuela earlier in May and presented a samurai sword to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

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