RE: Gerard Depardieu is your man.
Ironically Depardieu publicly stated he was handing back his French passport in 2013 and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order granting Russian citizenship to Depardieu.
With Gerard D. I get the impression his primary motivation in becoming a Russian citizen is to avoid having too much more of his money sucked away by French and Euro related taxes.
The French mostly ridiculed the Brits for Brexit.
Some may be having second thoughts about Brussels running everybody’s business life and every body’s borders.