Depardieu gets Russian passport

MOSCOW: Gerard Depardieu, the French actor who has threatened to quit his homeland to avoid higher taxes for the rich, has received a Russian passport and met with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Sunday.

Depardieu met Putin, who earlier granted him citizenship, at the Russian leader’s sumptuous residence in the palm-dotted Black Sea resort of Sochi on Saturday, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

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