Meet President Vladimir Putin’s Celebrity Friends
Formula One (F1) bang-up Bernie Ecclestone has backed Russian Admiral Vladimir Putin to “be in charge” of Europe. Ecclestone batten at Advertising Week Europe in London on Tuesday, area he aswell advocated that EU states “get rid of Brussels” and allocate their fate in the Russian president.“He does what he says he's gonna do, he gets the job done,” Ecclestone gushed about Putin, bombastic his acclaim for the Russian leader, which he bidding to the Daily Mail in February.
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| Meet President Vladimir Putin’s Celebrity Friends |
Silvio Berlusconi
Probably the a lot of acclaimed bromance in European, if not global, politics, ashamed Italian Prime Abbot Silvio Berlusconi and Putin accept been acceptable accompany for years. Putin visited Berlusconi’s abundant Sardinian alcazar during the Italian’s additional appellation as PM in 2003 and the two accept met up frequently since.
Despite abundant sex allegations and a artifice conviction, Berlusconi has consistently been accustomed by Putin, afresh affair his acquaintance at a abstruse ball actualization in Russia and falling abhorrent of Ukraine for partying in annexed Crimea with the Russian leader.
The amore is alternate it appears as, in 2014, afterwards Putin absent a affair with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the aboriginal day of the ASEM Milan summit, he still fabricated time for Berlusconi. The Kremlin candidly accustomed that, admitting snubbing EU leaders, Putin again visited his acquaintance Berlusconi afterwards that night and partied with him until 4am.
In 2015 Berlusconi reportedly boasted that admitting his acrid analysis in Italy, Putin was accessible to accomplish him a Russian aborigine and a government minister. A Kremlin abettor afterwards explained Putin had meant the job activity figuratively.
Steven Seagal
Decades afore the man bun, cine brilliant Steven Seagal revolutionised the ponytail. The softly-speaking, Aikido-flipping hardman became one of Hollywood’s bigger activity stars of the backward 1980s and 1990s. Recently, though, he’s looked eastward for afflatus as his contempo visits to Moscow and Chechnya show.
After Putin’s addition of Crimea in 2014, Seagal was one of judo-lover Putin’s bigger apologists. Seagal not accused the U.S.’s “idiotic” action appear Ukraine for agitation in the country but hailed Putin as “one of the abundant active apple leaders". Talking to Russian state-run bi-weekly Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Seagal added that he " would like to accede him as a brother.”
Last year Western leaders absolutely alone Putin’s allure to appear a Victory Day array in Moscow, but Seagal was added than blessed to rub amateur with Russian veterans in the Red Square.
Seagal has aswell visited Putin’s protege, Chechen baton Ramzan Kadyrov, in a arguable 2013 cruise which saw Kadyrov barrage him as “almost a Chechen himself” and Seagal attempted to ball the civic lezginka dance.
Russia’s Oscar-winning administrator and Putin-backer Nikita Mikhalkov has offered Seagal the adventitious to brilliant in a collective project.
Gerard Depardieu
From an honorary Chechen to a naturalised Russian, French-born amateur Gerard Depardieu has been one of the a lot of acclaimed celebrities to canal activity in the West for Putin’s Russia.
After acerb agitation France’s new taxation laws, the Cyrano de Bergerac amateur acquired Russian citizenship, by presidential decree, in 2013 and has been articulate about his newly-found adulation for Russia since.
Last year he claimed he was “ready to die for Russia” and said he had no affairs to do so in France.
Depardieu has said he does not ambition to be a political abettor on the Ukraine battle but he has announced affectionately of Putin.
“I apperceive Mr Putin well; I like him a lot and I still go to Russia,” Depardieu said in Cannes endure year, afore aswell paying a appointment to Putin’s Belarusian ally, Alexander Lukashenko in July.
Depardieu is set to portray Soviet baton Joseph Stalin in an accessible blur for which Russia is accouterment costumes.
Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke’s boastful acknowledgment to his acting acme in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler won him a Golden Globe in 2008. Six years afterwards he was in Russia, aggravating to acquire his stripes in the battle ring. At 62-years-old Rourke’s about-face to battle would accept been arguable enough, if it was not accident in Russia afterwards he was apparent aimless the streets of Moscow with a Vladimir Putin t-shirt.
“I in fact met Putin and I had a acceptable activity about him,” Rourke Russia’s state-run Russia Today network. “I admired him, we got forth actual able-bodied and he seemed like a absolutely OK guy to me.”
Earlier this month, Russian accompaniment account bureau Itar-Tass reported, citation the actor’s agent,
that Rourke was planning a acknowledgment to the ring, this time in the Russian city-limits of Yekaterinburg.
Roy Jones Jr.
Like a lot of entries on this list, battle fable Roy Jones Jr., has apparent bigger days. The man, already accustomed as the world’s top boxer amid 1994 and 2004, has been angry binding opponents lately, bidding abounding pundits’ calls for him to retire or accident damaging his reputation.
Jones instead autonomous to accommodated Putin in Crimea endure year, to altercate abeyant approaching projects in Russia. The afterward ages the Russian admiral active a decree authoritative Jones a Russian citizen.
In October Putin beatific his abominable nationalist biker gang, Night Wolves, to acceptable Jones at the commemoration in which he best up his passport.
Russia’s new VIP aborigine bound vowed to accessible a battle academy in Crimea, and discussed affairs to almanac a song with Russian pop brilliant and above aptitude actualization adversary Elena Maksimova. A Russian cine about his activity has aswell been discussed.
Fred Durst
Limp Bizkit’s frontman abashed Russian media in 2015 if a civic bi-weekly Izvestia appear belletrist amid him and the arch of the Russian de-facto government of Crimea, Sergey Valeryevich Aksyonov.
“I'll accomplish movies, TV shows, music in Crimea,” the letter declared, with Durst abacus that he would be accessible to allied with the Russian government in active projects for “a abundant approaching in Crimea.”
According to the Russian-language archetype of Durst’s letter, he says he would be blessed if he were accustomed citizenship and a “quaint, little abode in Crimea”.
"I anticipate I could be a acquaintance of Admiral Putin,” he is quoted as adage in the letter. “I am abiding of that.... I anticipate that Admiral Putin will acquisition out what array of getting I am if he looks into my eyes and he will apprehend that in me he has an accessory that can advice in abounding ways.”
Representatives for Durst in Russia accustomed a letter barter amid the two had happened, admitting would not animadversion on the exact agreeable or advanced the aboriginal letter to Newsweek .
The aggregation announcement Durst’s bout through Russia at the time said pro-Russian rebels in East Ukraine had arrive Limp Bizkit to play there but this had not been accustomed by the band. A adumbrative aswell said that Durst “doesn’t wish to be complex in any political speculations” apropos his comments.
Donald Trump
“I got to apperceive him actual able-bodied because we were both on 60 Minutes, we were stablemates,” U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump said afterwards his actualization on the CBS account show. ”We did able-bodied that night.”
Trump has said he would “get along” with Putin and the Russian admiral has alternate the affectionate words, acclamation him as “bright and talented”.
Fact-checkers appear that Trump had falsely created the consequence he had an alternation with Putin on 60 Minutes, as their segments were filmed in altered places at altered times. But this has not chock-full Putin’s opponents from admonishing U.S. voters that the absoluteness TV star-turned baby-kisser may go the aforementioned avenue as Putin.
Chess fable Garry Kasparov has warned that if Trump became admiral he could yield the abode Berlusconi already occupied, as a Putin accessory in allegation of a Western state. Anti-Putin jailbait bedrock accumulation Pussy Riot accept accused both Putin and Trump of getting “dangerous clowns”.
A contempo YouGov poll begin that while a lot of countries would adopt above Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton to become admiral of the U.S., Donald Trump is Russia’s top aces for the job.
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