A picture taken on December 11, 2010, shows Russia's President, then Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin (R) speaking with French actor Gerard Depardieu (L) as they tour Russky (Russian) Museum in St. Petersburg. Putin granted today fast-track citizenship to Depardieu after the movie star complained about the French Socialist government's proposed 75 percent tax on the rich.The decision appears to give Depardieu -- a frequent guest of the Moscow celebrity circuit who nonetheless never asked for a Russian passport -- the right to pay the 13 percent tax levied in Russia on everyone from billionaires to the poor.