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Depardieu’s new passport is ‘‘good news for Russian cinema’’, French Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac said on Europe 1 radio, though he added that ‘‘I find it a bit ludicrous that for tax reasons, this man decided to exile himself so far to the east’’.
The actor wrote in an open letter to French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault published in the French weekly Journal du Dimanche last month that his tax rate had hit 85 per cent and he is leaving ‘‘because you consider that success, creativity, talent, anything different, are grounds for sanction’’.
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Depardieu currently appears as the face of Bank Sovietsky in an ad campaign on its website and was among Western celebrities invited last year to the birthday of controversial Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
Vladimir Volkov, the head of the Russian republic of Mordovia, said Depardieu can fill
the vacant seat of minister for culture, RIA Novosti reported. More
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