In most countries you do...and I'd assume Russia is one of them unless you married a local and had a work permit...I can't have duel citizenship or become a Taiwanese citizen unless I give up my US citizenship in Taiwan....even then I have to live and work there for seven straight years and after that reside there more than half the year. my son could have duel citizenship if he served in the Taiwanese army for two years...if we had a daughter she couldn't have duel citizenship because of their medieval paternal laws....although they may now have changed with a female president
He's not getting citizenship in order to live in some former USSR tenement building with working class Russians who, by and large, are about the same as other working class people across the globe. He's becoming a Russian citizen in a PR stunt by the Kremlin, as they've done with French actor Gerard Depardieu. Putin likes to hobnob with Western celebrities and trot them out to make the state seem less authoritarian/more glamorous but he's an ex-KGB thug and this is the best he can do. Seagal is a delusional lunatic who stopped getting validation stateside in the 90s and has been forced to make movies in the dredges of Eastern Europe. He's found someone to pump his tires overseas and probably adores the flattering attention he gets when he's with Putin and other Russian muckety mucks. He also has a long history of intimidating and abusing co-workers and staff so the 'friends with Putin' card is probably another big motivator for him.
They took his daughter
He's one of the worst actors ever. I'd put him in the same category as Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Von Damme. Ugh.
