"There was a short meeting."Moscow (ANTARA News/AFP) - French actor Gerard Depardieu has received a Russian passport and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Putin`s spokesman said Sunday.
Putin earlier granted citizenship to Depardieu after the French movie star said he was quitting his homeland to avoid paying a new millionaires` tax.
Depardieu "was handed his passport," the Russian leader`s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told AFP.
But Putin did not personally hand over the document to the actor when the two met briefly Saturday at Putin`s residence in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi, Peskov said.
"There was a short meeting," he said, declining to give further details.
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