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We are waiting for you, Gerard!
I have little in common with Gerard Depardieu. But there is something, and it is very rare.
Both he and I renounced French citizenship.
The average person probably thinks, these are idiots, scumbags, both of them! Who refuses French, with Paris...
I gave up earlier than he did, back in the fall of 2011.
I considered that it was my obligation to surrender my citizenship to the country that gave it to me during the period when I was a passportless tramp, before I declared myself a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation. And I gave up my citizenship. Being firmly convinced that I will not be allowed to participate in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation.
I acted morally decent towards the country to which I surrendered my citizenship, thanked for their help in difficult years.
And I acted decently towards my native country; there should be no doublethink in such a serious matter as the election to the post of leader of Russia.
Depardieu's position is not as strong as mine. Lower rank. He renounced his citizenship, offended by the excessive financial extortions from the French state. President Putin, who prevented me from competing with him in the elections through the hands of the Central Election Commission, now gives Depardieu a passport, calling him Gerard with a wide smile.
I will also call him Gerard.
Gerard, come with a new Russian passport in your pocket to Triumphal Square on January 31st! Every 31st from 18:00 on this square, Russian citizens traditionally demand freedom of peaceful assembly, we demand the implementation of Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
We are waiting for you, Gerard! If I'm not mistaken, you played in one of the films of the great French revolutionary Danton? Here is an invitation to you, our French friend, to take on the real historical role of defender of Russian freedom.
This was the sermon on French citizenship dated January 03, 2013.