UltimateGuitar.com Wrote:Former Deep Purple and Rainbow singer Joe Lynn Turner is considering applying for Russian citizenship because he believes that President Vladimir Putin is the only world leader "who's telling the truth."

As Delfi (via Blabbermouth) notes, the vocalist was speaking at a press conference in Russian annexed Crimea. Stating that he would consider living in Belarus if Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko "let [him] in," he went on to state that he had "no love" for the United States:

"I just might apply for citizenship, because I have no - truth be told - I have no love anymore for the United States, really. I don't like the administrations, I don't like what's going on, I don't like the lies to the people... I don't like anything. It's not the country... my father's country. When there was opportunity, when there was truth - some truth anyway - I think..."