Editing Gérard Depardieu (section)

===Citizenship===
[[File:Gérard Depardieu and Vladimir Putin, Sochi, Russia, 2013-01-06 1.jpeg|thumb|Depardieu with Vladimir Putin in [[Sochi]], Russia, 5 January 2013|198x198px]]
Depardieu has been an official resident of [[Néchin]], Belgium, since 7 December 2012.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fraser |first=Christian |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20760572 |title=Depardieu: French film star stirs tax row |work=BBC News |date=17 December 2012|access-date=25 January 2013}}</ref> French Prime Minister [[Jean-Marc Ayrault]] criticised his move.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20691889|title=Depardieu tax exile move 'shabby' - French PM Ayrault |work=[[BBC]] |date=12 December 2012 |access-date=17 December 2012}}</ref> On 15 December 2012, Depardieu publicly stated he was handing back his [[French passport]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Depardieu 'to give up passport' in tax exile row |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20750593|work=BBC News |date=16 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lejdd.fr/Politique/Actualite/Gerard-Depardieu-Je-rends-mon-passeport-581254 |date=15 December 2012 |work=lejdd.fr |title=Gérard Depardieu : "Je rends mon passeport" |access-date=6 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121217101142/http://www.lejdd.fr/Politique/Actualite/Gerard-Depardieu-Je-rends-mon-passeport-581254 |archive-date=17 December 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On 3 January 2013, Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] signed an Executive Order granting Russian citizenship to Depardieu.<ref>{{cite news|title=Executive Order on granting Russian citizenship to Gerard Depardieu|url=http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/4833 |date=3 January 2013 |publisher=Russian Presidential Executive Office}}</ref> In his first interview thereafter, Depardieu attacked Putin's critics for "lacking vision".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/01/20131145231670149.html |title=Depardieu attacks Russia's opposition. |publisher=Aljazeera.com |access-date=25 January 2013}}</ref> In his autobiography, Depardieu said Putin "immediately liked my hooligan side."<ref>{{cite news|last=Bakker|first=Tiffany|date=7 October 2014|title=Gerard Depardieu reveals he was a child prostitute in revealing autobiography It Happened Like That|url=https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/gerard-depardieu-reveals-he-was-a-child-prostitute-in-revealing-autobiography-it-happened-like-that/news-story/86e0cecaf84ea35456a36f211f16e60c|work=news.com.au|access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref> In February 2013, he registered as a resident of [[Saransk]]. Also in January 2013, he was appointed a cultural ambassador for Montenegro.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://french.ruvr.ru/2013_01_09/Depardieu-ne-sest-pas-presente-a-sa-convocation-et-est-devenu-ambassadeur/ |title=Depardieu nommé ambassadeur de la culture du Monténégro |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=9 January 2013 |website=La Voix de la Russie |access-date=27 April 2014 |archive-date=15 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115040612/http://french.ruvr.ru/2013_01_09/Depardieu-ne-sest-pas-presente-a-sa-convocation-et-est-devenu-ambassadeur/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the summer of 2015, Depardieu's films were banned from television and cinemas in Ukraine due to his remarks questioning Ukraine's [[right to exist]] as an [[Independence|independent]] state.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gerard-depardieu-movies-banned-theaters-tv/story?id=32995523 |title=Why Gerard Depardieu Movies Have Been Banned From Theaters, TV |work=ABC News |date=10 August 2015 |access-date=25 April 2018}}</ref> In February 2022, Depardieu revealed that he had become a citizen of the United Arab Emirates, although he did not specify when this occurred.<ref>{{cite web|first=Capucine|last=Trollion|url=https://www.rtl.fr/culture/medias-people/gerard-depardieu-deja-russe-et-francais-l-acteur-est-desormais-aussi-dubaiote-7900129718|title=Gérard Depardieu : déjà russe et français, l'acteur est désormais aussi dubaïote|trans-title=Gérard Depardieu: already Russian and French, the actor is now also a Dubai citizen|date=1 March 2022|website=[[RTL (French radio)|RTL]]|access-date=10 March 2022|language=fr-FR}}</ref> In March 2022, he condemned the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] and accused Russian President Putin of "crazy, unacceptable excesses".<ref>{{cite news |title=Gerard Depardieu: Kremlin responds to actor's Putin criticism |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60954565 |work=BBC News |date=1 April 2022}}</ref>