MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has bestowed a prestigious award on US actor Steven Seagal for his work on strengthening international “cooperation,” according to an official decree released Monday.
In the decades since the height of his Hollywood fame, Seagal has been an outspoken supporter of Putin, who granted the 70-year-old film star citizenship several years ago.
Moscow said Seagal had been given the Order of Friendship for his “major contribution to the development of international cultural and humanitarian cooperation.”
Last August, Seagal visited the eastern Ukraine region of Donetsk, including the destroyed Olenivka detention centre where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners were reported to have died. Ukraine and Moscow traded blame for an attack on the facility last July.
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