Steven Seagal: Seagal and American Actor

steven seagal: ALEXEY DRUZHININ / AFP/Getty Images By Amy B Wang The Washington Post Sat., May 6, 2017 Steven Seagal, the American actor best known for his role in 90s action movies such as Hard to Kill and Under Siege, has been blacklisted from Ukraine as a national security threat, according to Toronto Star. Seagal is banned from entering the country for five years on grounds he has committed socially dangerous actions . . . that contradict the interests of maintaining Ukraine's security, according to a Ukrainian security service letter published by the news site Apostrophe and reported by the Guardian. The Ukrainian government has now banned Seagal from the country for five years, citing socially dangerous actions . . . that contradict the interests of maintaining Ukraine's security. The 65-year-old actor has for years cultivated a friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, bonding over their love of martial arts and shared macho images. In an interview then, Seagal defended Russia's annexation of Crimea, saying that Putin's desire to protect the Russian-speaking people of Crimea, his assets, and the Russian Black Sea military base in Sevastopol . . . is very reasonable, the Moscow Times reported. Though the Ukrainian security letter does not outline specific statements that got the actor banned, Seagal once participated in a pro-Putin motorcycle rally in Crimea, a disputed peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014 after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in a revolution. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.