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Russian President Vladimir Putin has given actor Steven Seagal a Russian \u201cOrder of Friendship\u201d award.<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s decree\u00a0on February 27 lauded\u00a0Seagal \u2014 who holds\u00a0dual US and Russian citizenship\u00a0\u2014 for his \u201cgreat contribution to the development of international cultural and humanitarian cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Seagal has been praised by the Russian government. He was appointed as a \u201cspecial representative\u201d of the Russian government in 2018 to help build a \u201cmutual understanding and trust between the Russian and American peoples,\u201d per a\u00a0Facebook post\u00a0from the Russian Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate Mr. Seagal\u2019s willingness to use his experience and authority for promotion of the Russia-US public, cultural, and humanitarian links as well as for building a more positive atmosphere in bilateral affairs,\u201d the Russian Foreign ministry wrote in August 2018.<\/p>\n

The \u201cUnder Siege\u201d actor and martial arts practitioner\u2019s support for Russia and Putin dates back at least a decade.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Seagal visited Russia and\u00a0watched a mixed martial arts fight with Putin.\u00a0He has since been vocal about his love for the Russian leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m Russian, I love Russia, I love Russian people, and I love your president. I really like that he does so much to support martial arts in Russia,\u201d Seagal told\u00a0the Russian Dozhd TV station in 2013,\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n

Seagal\u2019s proclamations turned political in 2014 when he expressed support for\u00a0Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea.<\/p>\n

Parroting Kremlin propaganda, he said it was \u201cvery reasonable\u201d for Putin to want to \u201cprotect the Russian-speaking people of Crimea, his assets, and the Russian Black Sea military base in Sevastopol,\u201d\u00a0Forbes\u00a0reported, citing Seagal\u2019s interview with the Russian state-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Putin gave Seagal a Russian passport during a meeting in Moscow, per the\u00a0Guardian. And in August \u2014 as the Ukraine war raged \u2014 Seagal also took on the role of an informal Kremlin spokesperson. He was seen\u00a0visiting a prison\u00a0in the Donbas region, a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine, where he pushed unsubstantiated, Kremlin-fueled claims that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was bombing his own troops in the region.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ukraine in 2017 banned Seagal from entering the country for five years, citing national security concerns, per\u00a0Reuters.<\/p>\n

Representatives for Seagal did not immediately respond to Insider\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

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