Steven Seagal Unite People Through Music

Hollywood actor and musician Steven Seagal has performed at a concert in the breakaway region of Crimea, appearing on a stage adorned with the flag of pro-Russian separatists fighting in Ukraine.
Seagal, who knows Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his blues band played at a bikers' show held in the city of Sevastopol, home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet. 

 The martial artist has come under fire for supporting Russia's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine in March, a view which saw him removed from the line-up at an Estonian blues festival earlier this summer. 

At the corner of the stage hung the black, blue and red flag of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), declared independent by separatist pro-Russian rebels fighting to break away from Ukraine. 

 Fans waved Russian and DNR flags as Seagal sang and played his guitar.  The news agency RIA Novosti reported that Seagal was then handed a shirt with Mr Putin's face on it, which he held aloft as he thanked the crowd. 

The star is reported to have said he travelled to the region because music unites people.