MOSCOW, March 14. Actor Steven Seagal said that more than half of Americans love Russians and Russia.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Seagal with the Order of Friendship.
«America spends billions of dollars on disinformation and fakes… They are trying to demoralize and destroy the image of Russia, this is a doctrine of hatred for Russia… But more than half of the people in America actually love Russia and Russians. And they know that we, the Russian people, proved to the world during the Second World War who we are. We lost 27 million people during the war, and America only 40-50 thousand. This shows what a sacrifice the Russians made to win against Nazism, «said he was during the congress of the International Movement of Russophiles.
In November 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree granting Seagal Russian citizenship. His paternal grandfather was born in Russia, and then moved across the ocean in the first half of the 20th century. Earlier, in search of roots, the actor visited Kalmykia, Tuva and Yakutia. In August 2018, Seagal became the special representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry for humanitarian relations between Moscow and Washington. As Seagal himself stated in an interview, his paternal grandfather was born in one of the Buddhist regions of Russia, and later moved to the United States. He also mentioned that his grandmother is from Vladivostok, and some ancestors come from St. Petersburg and Belarus.