"Citizen Department": the new department of Depardieu can hit the French president

The receipt by French actor Gerard Depardieu Russian citizenship did not escape the attention of Western journalists. The British press, having guessed that the artist needs a passport for a speedy refusal of French citizenship, could not resist caustic comments and remembered the actor friendship with authoritarian politicians.

The Times , which devoted the article to this event, even redid the name of the Frenchman to the "Russian" Lad - Department. Soon, the most famous French actor of his time can become the greatest Russian film star of our days, ironizes the publication.

Times also suggested why Vladimir Putin, who, by personal decree, granted the actor the possibility of an early receipt of a Russian passport, was so responsive. Moscow thus threw a stone into the garden of French President Francois Hollande.

- Brigitte Bardo threatens the French authorities to do as a department and ask for a Russian passport

In addition, Putin drew attention to the world community that, unlike France, unfriendly to great actors and establishing high taxes for rich, in Russia the income tax is only 13%, the Russian BBC service notes.

"The case of the department shows that financial, economic and political stability is often the most important factor when choosing a country not only for investors, but also for artists and culture. I think that if the rest of the departments would have reached such progress as it happened in the tax policy, it would be a queue for obtaining citizenship of our country," the head of Sberbank Herman emphasized in an interview with Sberbank Herman Gref.

Meanwhile, the British newspaper The Guardian explains why Depardieu himself became a Russian with such a hunt (learning that he is the owner of a passport of the Russian Federation, the actor confessed to the love of Russians and their culture in an open letter). The reason for the joy is that Depardieu cannot abandon the French citizenship hated by him until he receives a passport of another country, offers his version of the newspaper.

The Frenchman Depardieu still had a chance to become not only a Russian, but, for example, a citizen of Uzbekistan. The British press recalled that the actor in the near future would act in the film according to the script of the daughter of the Uzbek authoritarian ruler of Islam Karimov Gulnara, suspecting that Putin is not the only senior patron of Depardieu. Journalists also remembered the newly -made Russian warm relations with the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.