President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree to grant Russian citizenship to US athlete Jeffrey Monson. The decree, signed on May 28, was published on the official legal information portal on Tuesday. Monson, a mixed martial arts fighter, and a native of Minnesota, has held 85 fights to win 60 of them. He is also a Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion. Monson, who is known for his fondness of Russia, in 2016 received the title of honorary citizen of Abkhazia and last year, a passport of the citizen of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, TASS reports. The decision to grant the Russian citizenship to Monson was approved in December 2015.
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