Actor Steven Segal performs at concert organized by Russian nationalist motorcycle gang in Crimea

[NightWatcher]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/report-us-actor-steven-seagal-performs-crimea



MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian news RIA Novosti says American actor and musician Steven Seagal has performed at a concert in the breakaway region of Crimea on a stage decorated with the flag of pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Seagal, who knows Russian President Vladimir Putin, performed with his blues band Saturday night in the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol at a concert organized by a motorcycle gang of Russian nationalists known as the Night Wolves. Russia annexed the Ukrainian region in March.

RIA Novosti reported that Seagal was then handed a shirt with Putin's face on it, which he held aloft as he thanked the crowd.

[KG]

1. Steven Seagal - like buttah!

[Duckhunter935]

2. a washed up acter

what an asshole

[ck4829]

3. Hey look, it's two pretend tough guys in the same place at the same time

[leftstreet]

4. How many cows does it take to make his coats?

[Ken Burch]

20. 355. They use the leftover leather for his annual facelift. n/t.

[frylock]

23. five. two for the material, and three for him to eat during the fitting.

[onehandle]

5. The Right felete Putin as one of their own.

The Rightists of the U.S. are enemies of our state.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Bloated talentless never-been finds people who will pay attention to him?

Aww, what a feel-good story.

[pinboy3niner]

7. Seagal once again in the Belly of the Beast

[JI7]

8. maybe this will get the russians to leave

[oberliner]

9. Steven Seagal has a blues band?

That can't be good.

[Ken Burch]

21. NO one CAN go to his films anymore. They're all straight-to-disc.

You'd have to boycott your mailbox.

[U4ikLefty]

11. Hasn't Crimea suffered enough?

[Igel]

12. Ah, yes, this concert. With the lit torches and swastika formation.

http://obozrevatel.com/politics/05814-putinskie-bajkeryi-v-kryimu-ustroili-shabash-s-fakelnyim-shestviem-i-svastikoj.htm

Apparently the "nationalist" biker gang decided to form a swastika, with their lighted torches aloft. Not a word from the mainstream Russian press that rants about the horrors of fascism and--shudder--swastikas. You have to look at opposition press to see this.

Then again, I guess it's okay, we already have a lot of "national bolsheviks" in Russia supporting the rebels along with the Communist Party. Even as the rebels harrass blacks, close "Western" Protestant churches (those Baptists), bash gays, and basically ban anything but Russian.

[Cali_Democrat]

13. Dafuq?

[joshcryer]

14. That concert was terrifying Nazi-style propaganda.

It was truly the most intense thing I have seen regarding New Russian Nationalism. And it was unsettling. I hope the Siberian Autonomous movements don't gain traction.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. Wait'll Putin figures out that's not Jim Belushi...

Worse, wait'll Seagal figures it out.

[pinboy3niner]

16. "I loved your brother in Samurai sketches!"

"Reminds me of younger days in KGB."

[Rex]

17. How pathetic.

[Lint Head]

18. Segal is another big mouthed coward like poopy

pants Nugent.

[Ken Burch]

19. Seagal is exactly the sort of former celebrity who gets drawn into fascism, nationalism or Stalinism

(or, in this case, sort of a combo platter of all three).

Someone who used to have fame, no longer has it, and is desperate for any sort of attention. Putin and his minions flattered him and turned him.

[krawhitham]

22. It's OK, he is just on a CIA mission