Natalia Oreiro Is Now a Russian Citizen
Natalia Oreiro, who this morning received the passport that officially makes her a Russian citizen in a brief ceremony at the Embassy of that country in Buenos Aires, considered that the gesture promoted by President Vladimir Putin means “a cultural bridge between Russia and the Río de la Plata ”.
“I am very grateful, excited, as few times in my life. I feel that it is an enormous act of love from them towards me, and from me towards them as well, an act of love that has been going on for more than 20 years ”, highlighted Oreiro in a press conference that was held once the documents that converted her had been signed. Natalia Oreiro and her 9-year-old son Merlin Atahualpa Mollo Oreiro, as Russian citizens.
“We people who dedicate ourselves to art – added the interpreter born in Uruguay – cross all language and cultural barriers and I think that is what this day is all about.”
The granting of citizenship is the result of a link between Oreiro and the Russian public that has been going on for more than two decades, crowned by a joking comment that the artist made a few years ago during a stint on a television program in that country: “ There is no other foreigner more Russian than me. I need Putin to give me a passport ”.
Natalia Oreiro Statements
Weeks later, Natalia Oreiro stated in statements to the RIA Novosti agency that she was not going to live in Russia, but was seeking citizenship of this country as an “honor from a symbolic point of view” and a “way of thanking (the Russian people) for everything. the love ”that they give him.
That process that began at the end of 2019 and was postponed due to the pandemic, materialized today after 10 in the morning at the Russian Embassy, in the Recoleta neighborhood.
Natalia Oreiro Husband Musician Ricardo Mollo
Led by Ambassador Dmitry Feoktístov, the ceremony was attended by Oreiro’s husband, musician Ricardo Mollo, and their son. Once Natalia Oreiro signed the papers, she read her commitment to citizenship in Spanish and Russian (whose diction was praised by the official), formally received the passports and the text of the Constitution.
“I consider this to be a symbolic act beyond being something official, I feel it as a recognition of this cultural exchange that we have because in Russia they have known me for all the work I did here in Argentina and they love our art, our films, our television, our music ”, highlighted Natalia Oreiro, wearing a white jacket and pants, in front of a score of local and Russian media.
Natalia Oreiro Link With Russia
Asked about the beginnings of this powerful bond that was embodied in the documentary “Nasha Natasha”, which premiered on Netflix in August 2020, and which today finished merging with citizens, Oreiro went back to the ’90s, when thanks to the telenovela Muñeca brava (translated in Russia as “ Wild Angel ”) became known there.
“At that time there were no social networks or the internet: I received letters – she recalled – and just thinking that someone wrote to me from Siberia when leaving school, they would send it to me, they would reach me and then I could put a photo and mailing it back, it seemed like something magical to me. “
That link transcended the analogical and epistolary frontiers in the spring of 2000, when Oreiro landed in Moscow, She went to Red Square and “did not believe the number of people there were” to greet her.