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In reply to the discussion: Snowden has left the airport.... [View all]Lugal Zaggesi
(366 posts)78. You seem disappointed
that they used a stock photo of Depardieu and sexy women for the story about his being "a regular client in a club in Saransk, where he usually consumes liters of whiskey in the company of dozens of beautiful young Russian women".
Did you want an actual paparazzi photo of Gérard with actual beautiful young Russian women in that actual club in Saransk?
BTW, Gérard's new Russian home, in Saransk, the capital of the Republic of Mordovia, is about 370 miles east of Moscow - that's why he "stays in hotels" when he's filming in Moscow, which you seem to think implies that he doesn't live in Russia these days:
But just days later cinema star Gerard Depardieu was spotted zipping around on a mini-scooter outside his hotel in Russia.
The 64-year-old actor, who is in Moscow filming,
Remember that fine bit of Googling "evidence" for your argument?
You also seem to feel that his "primary residence" is in Belgium. For some unexplained reason. Possibly because he has a company there, among many companies Gérard owns.
Here's another one, coming soon:
http://www.alianzanews.com/309_hispanic-world/2058548_depardieu-to-open-restaurant-in-russian-city-where-he-lives.html
Depardieu to open restaurant in Russian city where he lives
Moscow, May 20 (EFE).- French actor Gerard Depardieu, a Russian citizen since early this year, is soon to open a restaurant in the city where he now resides, authorities in the Mordovia region said Monday.
"Depardieu told us that he will soon open a restaurant that aims to attract creative, enterprising people," Valeri Maresiev, information minister for the Russian Republic of Mordovia, told the Interfax news agency.
The actor went through the bureaucratic procedures Monday that are required to register as a businessman in Saransk, Mordovia's capital, some 600 kilometers (370 miles) east of Moscow.
Among his other projects in Russia, Depardieu is preparing to star in two movies about the North Caucasus, to be filmed in Chechnya and Moscow.
The award-winning actor compared Putin with Pope John Paul II and late French President Francois Mitterrand in a recent interview with the Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Depardieu, 64, left his native France last year to protest the imposition of a 75-percent tax hike on the wealthy, moving first to the Belgian border town of Nechin.
Everyone seems to realize that he tried to move to Belgium first, but it didn't work out.
Everyone but you.
He now resides in Saransk, 370 miles east of Moscow.
But he still travels a lot.
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The report said he could stay if he kept his mouth shut, and he had a one year visa.
MADem
Aug 2013
#2
Do you have a link that supports that assertion? All I've seen is stuff like this:
MADem
Aug 2013
#17
Your link also says he will only be allowed to stay in "designated" places, though:
MADem
Aug 2013
#22
Yes but I was providing that link so that you will know where we are getting it from when we
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#24
No. He absolutely does care about Bout. Bout is a tough guy, and he knows many things.
MADem
Aug 2013
#56
I will believe Reuters before I believe Wikileaks--they've been known to adjust the truth to suit
MADem
Aug 2013
#21
I'd post the appropriate rejoinder but delicate flowers would hide the thread.
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#12
I am very glad he released the information he released. I am disapointed he did it the way he did...
marble falls
Aug 2013
#4
Well, he is now subject to Russian law. That might not be such a good thing for him.
MADem
Aug 2013
#5
I think you are correct. His adventure is not over. He's now a puppet used by two powers.
marble falls
Aug 2013
#6
No matter what it'll be a great reality show - living in airports in unfreindly nations. Title:....
marble falls
Aug 2013
#49
It looks like Obama won't be raising a Stoli in Moskva with Pootie this September.
MADem
Aug 2013
#29
I think if Pootie could get two of his very valuable assets back, plus a couple of
MADem
Aug 2013
#58
"If Pootie had his way, he'd reunify the glorious USSR. He's not Santa, he ran the KGB."
Lugal Zaggesi
Aug 2013
#68
Of course they are "allowed" to travel all over the world, but way to miss the point I made.
MADem
Aug 2013
#76
How fortunate he is to find asylum in this bastion of free speech and open, tolerant government...
Agnosticsherbet
Aug 2013
#30
Better than returning to face the type of abuse that Bradley manning faced. n/t
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#32
I agree, I tried hiding the Snowden threads, but he is not always in the title.
we can do it
Aug 2013
#59