• Steven Seagal banned from Ukraine as a threat to national security
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[quote]Ukraine has banned American action movie star Steven Seagal as a national security threat, making him the latest of several cultural figures to be blacklisted. The Ukrainian security service said it had forbidden Seagal entry to the country for five years, in a letter published by the news site Apostrophe. The service’s press secretary later confirmed the ban to other media. The letter said such a decision is made when a person has “committed socially dangerous actions … that contradict the interests of maintaining Ukraine’s security”. The move comes after the actor received citizenship in Russia, which has backed separatists in a simmering conflict in eastern Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin handed Seagal a Russian passport and told him he hoped their “personal relationship will remain and continue” during a meeting in the Kremlin last year. But Seagal’s outspoken support for Putin and his policies have earned the enmity of the Ukrainian authorities. The actor called Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine “very reasonable”. He later played with his blues band at a concert in Crimea put on by a pro-Putin biker club, with the flag of eastern Ukraine separatists flying onstage. In 2015, Seagal was included in a proposed blacklist of foreign cultural figures who “speak out in support of violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine” along with French actor Gérard Depardieu and many Russian artists. Ukraine later banned Depardieu and has also blacklisted more than 100 Russian films.[/quote] [url]https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/may/05/ukraine-bans-steven-seagal-national-security-russian-citizenship?CMP=twt_gu[/url] Figured it fit here because he was banned for political reasons
Makes sense. I have seen Steven Seagal kill countless people with guns, explosives, blades, and his fists.
Unstoppable man of action. Bold move by the ukrainians
They must have reviews his historical documents; Above the Law, Hard to Kill, Marked for Death ect.
oh great, you've angered him, now he'll snatch every motherfucker birthday
Steven Seagal is...... Banned From Ukraine
His reaction [video=youtube;uLwWRZGZVTw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLwWRZGZVTw[/video]
Looks like Ukraine was still sore about that fifty bucks. [video=youtube;4KlyHwnPqns]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KlyHwnPqns[/video]
I guess given the size of him these days they where worried he may block a fire escape or something.
It's not as funny with context, one of the few times it's best to only read the headline.
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