Steven Seagal has expressed his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin over his actions in Crimea.
The action movie star called Putin “one of the great living world leaders” in a lengthy interview with Russia’s state-run newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta from the set of a film he is shooting in Romania.
In comments first noted by The Moscow Times, the country’s leading English-language newspaper, Seagal said 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.”
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