Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Kadyrov invita Depardieu in Cecenia

Ottima idea :)
 
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/13a09f96-5596-11e2-bdd2-00144feab49a.html#axzz2H0SLIn3y
 
 
Depardieu in Russian citizenship thriller
 
By Charles Clover in Moscow and Hugh Carnegy in Paris
 
In the old days, those who took up an offer of citizenship from the 
Kremlin usually had a compelling reason. Whether they were hunted spies, 
exchanged prisoners or ideological misfits, the likes of Kim Philby, 
Morris Cohen and Lee Harvey Oswald were among the west’s most notorious 
defectors, trading their passports for life in the socialist workers’ 
paradise.
 
Russia now attracts a new generation of westerners, chiefly with its 13 
per cent income tax rate, something that might look pretty good if you 
are a French actor facing a 75 per cent rate in your home country.
 
It was certainly looking good enough for Gérard Depardieu on Thursday 
after a decree by his friend Vladimir Putin granting him Russian 
citizenship, which saw the president honouring a public pledge he made 
two weeks ago.
 
Mr Putin promised to welcome the actor to Russia after Mr Depardieu had 
threatened to give up his French passport in a rage over increased tax 
rates on the wealthy. “If Gerard really wants to have a residency permit 
in Russia or a Russian passport, we can consider this issue resolved 
positively,” Mr Putin said.
 
According to Russian television, which on Thursday showed what it said 
was a letter to journalists from the actor, Mr Depardieu confirmed he 
had asked for Russian citizenship. “Yes, I applied for a passport, and I 
am glad my application has been accepted,” he wrote.
“I love your country, Russia, your people, your history, your writers. I 
like to make films here . . . I adore your culture, your way of thinking 
 . . . And I am going to learn Russian.”
 
Mr Depardieu went on to say that he had informed his own president, 
François Hollande, of his feelings and that “he knows I very much like 
President Vladimir Putin, and [this feeling] is mutual”.
He signed off: “Glory to Russia!”
 
The actor is particularly revered in Russia, which embraces the few 
western stars who make frequent trips and where he has served on the 
juries of film festivals in Moscow and Sochi. “This promise [of 
citizenship] was based on Depardieu’s weighty contributions to our 
native culture and cinematography,” Dmitry Peskov, presidential 
spokesman, said.
 
Were Mr Depardieu to settle in Russia – or even take up tax residence – 
it would be *a propaganda coup for Mr Putin* [sottolineatura mia, N.], 
who has often bemoaned the fact that Russia’s wealthy tend to settle 
abroad whenever they make enough money to leave.
 
It would also carry echoes of the cold war when leftwing European 
celebrities risked controversy by visiting the Soviet Union. In 1958, 
for example, Yves Montand, Mr Depardieu’s future co-star in the 1986 
film Jean de Florette, travelled to Moscow along with Simone Signoret.
The French government responded tartly to Mr Putin’s decree, saying it 
was up to the Russian president to choose to whom he gave citizenship.
“I have no further comment,” said Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the minister 
for women’s rights and official government spokeswoman, after the weekly 
cabinet meeting.
 
The Elysée palace confirmed on Thursday night that President Hollande 
had spoken to Mr Depardieu on new year’s day, although it declined 
further comment, according to AFP, the French news agency.
 
Albert Frilley, a friend of the actor, told the broadcaster RTL that Mr 
Hollande had wanted to know the reasons for Mr Depardieu’s decision to 
go into exile. Mr Depardieu remained “French in the hearts of the 
French” but was “disgusted” by the treatment he had received since it 
emerged that he planned to move to Belgium and needed ‘”to step back”, 
Mr Frilley said. “We spit on those who succeed,” Mr Depardieu told the 
president, he added.
 
In an earlier letter to France’s prime minister – written after the 
latter branded the actor “pathetic” – Mr Depardieu threatened to hand in 
his French passport but there has been no report that he has actually 
done so.
 
The actor has already registered as a resident of Belgium, according to 
press reports. The crucial attraction of Belgium for would-be French tax 
exiles is that it levies no wealth or capital gains tax, both of which 
Mr Hollande’s socialist government has raised sharply, as well as 
proposing the 75 per cent tax margin on incomes of more than €1m a year.
Russia, with a 13 per cent tax rate, is even more attractive than 
Belgium, at least from a fiscal point of view.
 
“In the west, they don’t know about the substance of our taxation 
system. When they find out, there will be a mass migration of rich 
Europeans to Russia,” Dmitry Rogozin, the country’s vice-prime minister, 
predicted on Twitter.
 
Would-be migrants should take care to read the fine print. In order to 
take advantage of the 13 per cent tax rate, one has to live in Russia 
183 days a year, otherwise it goes up to 30 per cent.
 
But before Russia eclipses Monaco as the next destination for European 
tax exiles, it has some competition. Chechnya, the war-torn autonomous 
Russian republic, run by warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, has also offered Mr 
Depardieu a home.
 
French media have shown a video of Mr Depardieu celebrating the birthday 
of Chechnya’s ruler in Grozny in 2012, shouting to the crowd: “Glory to 
Chechnya, glory to Ramzan Kadyrov.”
 
Mr Kadyrov said last month he was “ready to welcome the great artist” to 
Chechnya.
 
A Chechen spokesman said on Thursday that Mr Kadyrov's invitation was 
still good. “We confirm: if Depardieu wants to live in the Chechen 
Republic, this will be received as joyful news,” spokesman Alvi Karimov 
told Moscow Echo radio. “He will receive all the conditions required for 
a good life and creative work.”
 
-- 
Namib
.....
- God will take care of you. Whatever you need, God will give it to you.
- I need a shave. Am I next?
(Tom Kromer)

 Ottima idea :)
 
Mi sembra che tu la stia prendendo troppo a ♥.
 
Depardieu è un cazzone (e non da oggi: ricordiamo con gusto gli sbrocchi 
aero-uro-etilici di un paio d'anni fa e, comunque, da giovane era un 
enfant terrible non lato sensu), non perché tenti più o meno 
grottescamente di difendere il suo patrimonio (il che, in definitiva, è 
un suo diritto: sta allo stato comprimere il suo spazio di manovra) ma 
perché ne ha fatto una stupida battaglia di immagine e ideologica che 
non sta né in cielo, né in terra.
 
Era un buon attore
 
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080610/
 
 
con qualche perdonabile, ma gustosa, escursione
 
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082183/
 
 
che si è trasformato in una macchietta di se stesso
 
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1597522/
.
 
Non sarà inumato al Père-Lachaise: 'sti cazzi.
 
 
-- 
*Sunspot*
That's all.  Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely.  I 
like myself.  I'm the best form of entertainment I have.  Let's drink 
more wine!
 

 Non sarà inumato al Père-Lachaise: 'sti cazzi.
 
Amen.
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 incazzare
 
ah, gia' cambiato idea :D
 

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Ah, perché, chi si incazza non dorme? :)
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 Ah, perché, chi si incazza non dorme? :)
 
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Anger_how_it_affects_people
 
 
alla voce "Health problems".

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Io dormo come un pupo. Però, non essendo (come te) uno scendiletto (e 
considerando in che casino siamo tutti), trovo particolarmente irritante 
(e "patetica", cit. Hollande) la sceneggiata del milardario lamentoso. 
Sarò un eccentrico.
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 Me lo sono perso.
 
Divertente. Grande colonna sonora, tra l'altro.
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 (e "patetica", cit. Hollande) la sceneggiata del milardario lamentoso.
 
io preferisco utilizzare il mio tempo in modi migliori che pensare ai soldi altrui e farmi venire l'acido.

 io preferisco utilizzare il mio tempo in modi migliori
 
Vedo :)
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 Divertente. Grande colonna sonora, tra l'altro.
 
Lo recupererò. P.S. Parlando di grande cinema, hai visto "La Horde" 
(
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183276/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
)? Io sono di 
parte, ok, ma a me è sembrato ottimo (en attendant "Machete kills").
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 kills").
 
Non sono un grande fan degli splatter.
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 Non sono un grande fan degli splatter.
 
"Machete" mica era uno splatter: era un film giocoso e "ovidiano".
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 "Machete" mica era uno splatter: era un film giocoso e "ovidiano".
 
Ah, e nemmeno "La Horde" è un vero splatter: in fondo, è, come fu 
"Distretto 13" di Carpenter, un western travestito da horror.
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 "Machete" mica era uno splatter: era un film giocoso e "ovidiano".
 
Si svolge a Sulmona?
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 "Distretto 13" di Carpenter, un western travestito da horror.
 
Ma io a Carpenter voglio bene (quasi come al PD) e quindi sono disposto 
a perdonargli qualsiasi cosa, a partire dall'incongrua — e 
incongruamente lunga — scazzottata tra John Nada e Frank Armitage a metà 
di They Live (USA, 1 988).
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 Si svolge a Sulmona?
 
Dovrebbe: è una vacanza dello spirito, proprio come gli "Amores".
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 di They Live (USA, 1 988).
 
C'è a chi piace, quel film, ma la sostanza "ideologica" mi pare 
assimilabile alla rappresentazione liceal-borghese ("Cosa ci sarà dietro 
quel muro?") dell'immortale "Liquirizia" di Samperi (grande colonna 
sonora anche qui: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vtRg4xBzjw
). Troppo 
schematica: ti viene da diventare consumista :)
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 schematica: ti viene da diventare consumista :)
 
Maddài! Se solo Carpenter fosse stato più sobrio, lo avrebbe intitolato 
They Live!!!11!1!
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