French actor Gerard Depardieu (C) holds his passport registration at the theatre in Saransk, on February 23, 2013. Depardieu, who was granted a Russian passport by President Vladimir Putin after complaining at high tax rates in France, was set to spend today in Moscow before travelling 650 kilometres (400 miles) to the provincial city of Saransk to register as a resident of No. 1 Democracy Street (Demokraticheskaya Ulitsa). AFP PHOTO / ANDREY SMIRNOV