Report: US Actor Steven Seagal Performs In Crimea

Steven Seagal Steven Seagal in concert, Clapham Grand, London, Britain - 25 Jul 2014 (Rex Features via AP Images)
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MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian news RIA Novosti says American actor and musician Steven Seagal has performed at a concert in the breakaway region of Crimea on a stage decorated with the flag of pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Seagal, who knows Russian President Vladimir Putin, performed with his blues band Saturday night in the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol at a concert organized by a motorcycle gang of Russian nationalists known as the Night Wolves. Russia annexed the Ukrainian region in March.

RIA Novosti reported that Seagal was then handed a shirt with Putin’s face on it, which he held aloft as he thanked the crowd.

Fighting in eastern Ukraine continued to rage Sunday while Ukrainian officials demanded that the insurgents surrender.

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  1. Boy caught, Boycott!

  2. I’m not sure that there is a bigger horse’s ass on the entire planet than Steven Seagal—and that’s a pretty big herd. Blowhard of the Decade Award… no doubt. Gitty-up, Wannabe!

  3. Well, at least it’s not like when you’re disappointed by the obnoxious sociopolitical views of a great artist you deeply admire.

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    Look for Seagal to be on Fox (false) News playing with Huckabee and singing Putin Love songs. What a sick bunch of criminals, the whole lot; Murdoch, Putin, Hannity, the Kochs, Seagal etc.

  5. This could be a clever CIA plot wherein Steve swallows Crimea and brings it back to the USA to be used to house those Latin American kids down at the border.

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