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| Subject: LOL: Depardieu granted Russian citizenship as tax row goes international Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:40 pm | |
| t was the sort of below-the-belt blow Francois Hollande could have done without. Still reeling from a series of political thumps at home and abroad, the right hook delivered by Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday gave the French president his first bloody nose of 2013.
The Kremlin's announcement that Putin had signed official papers granting Russian citizenship to French national hero Gerard "Gege" Depardieu hit home. It also turned what had seemed a somewhat comic hissy fit between the actor and his government into an international spat.
Given that France's civil code requires a citizen to have another nationality in order to relinquish being French, the melodrama might have ended, had Putin not joined the fray.
Hollande should have seen it coming. Ever since Depardieu, 64, entered the political ring to spar with his country's leadership over taxes weeks ago, this was a punch waiting to be landed.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/depardieu-granted-russian-citizenship-as-tax-row-goes-international-20130104-2c7rf.html#ixzz2GxVwJan1
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