Reported by Ryan Smith

Steven Seagal continued to show his appreciation for his adopted home of Russia over the weekend, when he headlined the festival Guitars in Formation.

The actor, who is the special representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry for Russian-American humanitarian relations, recently received an Order of Friendship medal from President Vladimir Putin for his work in supporting the nation.

Several weeks after describing himself as “1 million percent Russian” at an event in Moscow, Michigan-born Seagal, 71, made his way to the city of Samara, in southwestern Russia, to perform at the Guitars in Formation festival.

As the Under Siege star made his way onto the stage for his performance on May 6, the cheering crowd was heard repeatedly chanting his name.

Dressed in a mostly black ensemble, Seagal walked out onto the stage with a guitar, as he told the crowd that the instrument held particular cultural significance.

“Maybe many of you don’t recognize this. This is an old, old Soviet guitar,” he said in English, before pausing while a translator repeated his words in Russian. “It’s been fully restored. And this is going into Vladimir’s museum forever.”

Seagal signed the guitar before it was handed off and taken backstage. The screen star then took up another guitar, and sat on a chair onstage as he played through a medley of blues tracks before the cheering crowd.

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