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Vladimir Putin recently awarded Steven Seagal the Order of Friendship for improving international relations.
Steven Seagal seeks with his dojo in Russia to train young people who seek to enter the army of that country.
Since 2016, the actor Steven Seagal has Russian nationality.
During the 90’s, within international film productions, especially in Hollywood, films with war and martial arts themes became the great cinema boom, leaving great films that have gone down in history, in addition to positioning great actors and stars like Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis or Steven Seagal, who has gained relevance in the last few hours within the digital conversation because he announced the opening of a martial arts center where he seeks to train Russian soldiers.
War between Russia and Ukraine
Currently, the world is going through various war conflicts, one of the most recent being the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which began on February 24, 2022when Russian troops, which came from Russia and Belarus, crossed the border and invaded Ukraine, after months of tensions and accumulation of military forces.
Situation that added to the global health crisis caused by Covid 19, generated a strong lag in the world economy and the production and obtaining of various raw materials, which caused a delay in the world supply, in addition to political divisions and precision of the world before what happened.
Steven Seagal and the Russian soldiers
During the era of the 90s and early 2000s, Steven Seagal, was an action movie icon, fame that led him to create an aikido center in Moscow, with the intention of teaching martial arts to young Russians who wish to join the army.
“The young people I saw today have great potential. We need to open more centers of this type to develop it. It is important that the development of aikido progresses at a faster pace,” the actor told Russian media.
This is in addition to the recognition that he received in previous days from Vladimir Putin, who awarded him the Order of Friendship, an award for people that Russia recognizes as an important part of improving international relations. It is worth mentioning that Steven Seagal has the Russian nationality since 2016, shortly after starring in films such as: High Alert in 1992, Above the Law in 1988, Hard to Kill in 1990 or Corruption Network in 2001.
@WapaTV Production must take into account that Steven Seagal lives in Russia and that he has sworn allegiance to that country and is considered in the United States as a traitor to the nation and that he is possibly helping Russian soldiers in martial arts training. pic.twitter.com/8ddp5RryIL
– Lydia Chaparro Varela (@lyd_v10) March 3, 2023
Steven Seagal and his lineage in martial arts
According to what was pointed out by the actor and martial arts specialist, Steven Seagal, he has the degree of master black belt, seventh dan in the traditional Japanese martial art of aikido, and is also the first Westerner in history to found, open and direct their own school or dojo of said specialty in Japan itself; the Tenshin Dojo and also have a martial arts school in Russia.
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