Depardieu back in Russia to reside on Democracy Street

Worldwide, Daily news | | February 23, 2013 8:33

French actor Gerard Depardieu was Friday visiting his newly-adopted homeland of Russia to meet the Orthodox Patriarch, open a cinema and visit his new address on “Democracy Street”.

Depardieu, who was granted a Russian passport by President Vladimir Putin after complaining at high tax rates in France, was set to spend Friday in Moscow before travelling 650 kilometres to the provincial city of Saransk to register as a resident of Democracy Street (Demokraticheskaya Ulitsa).
“They will put a stamp in his most important document (passport) giving him permanent registration at a concrete address…The flat where Depardieu will be registered is in a building on Democracy Street in central Saransk,” Russian state television reported.
The street is in the Lenin district of the city of 300,000 residents to the east of Moscow. The apartment where Depardieu will be a resident belongs to family members of the head of Russia’s State Film Fund, Nikolai Borodachev, a friend of the actor, Russian news agencies reported.
Saransk is the capital of the Mordovia region, chiefly known for its network of prison camps where one of the jailed Pussy Riot punks is serving her sentence.
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