“Ok, we’ll make her that,” Stone responded, according to a transcript released by the Kremlin. “Does she want to become an Orthodox Christian?” Putin asked.
“Otherwise I would ask you to be the godfather for my daughter.”
“Oh, you cannot refuse it?” Oliver responded. “According to Russian Orthodox tradition, you can’t refuse such a request,” Putin said.Īlso Read: Georgian TV Host's Expletive-Laden, Anti-Putin Rant Leads to Station Temporarily Going Off-Air Stone - who interviewed the Russian president in June shortly before the July 4 premiere in Italy of his documentary “Revealing Ukraine” - had mentioned pro-Russian Ukrainian politician and Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk, when Putin said that Medvedchuk asked him to “take part in the christening of his daughter.” Filmmaker Oliver Stone got up close and personal while interviewing Russian president Vladimir Putin, with the two discussing the country’s ban on “homosexual propaganda,” the “behaviours and the thinking of the new generation”… and the possibility of Putin becoming godfather to Stone’s 22-year-old daughter.
