At a martial arts school outside of Moscow, he said, "I think it would be quite appropriate to recall the positive experience of past decades when the so-called GTO, Ready for Labour and Defence, was in use in our country," referring to a program from the 1930s, founded under Joseph Stalin. "The revival of this system – in a new, modern format – could bring major benefits."

The Guardian reports on Seagal's role at the event:

"Seagal's action films are popular in Russia and he has met the president several times. In what seemed to be a choreographed incident, Seagal rushed into a crowd of children trying to pose with Putin and pulled him out, as if acting as his bodyguard."

Neither Putin, who has a black belt in Judo, nor Seagal sparred -- instead, they watched from the sidelines.

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On Saturday at a school in Fountain Hills, Arpaio's staff members reportedly planned to run mock drills with fake gunmen, while Seagal "planned to lead training on hand-to-hand defense tactics, among other techniques, drawing from his expertise in martial arts, according to a sheriff's office news release," according to the Associated Press.

In the wake of the Newtown school shootings, Arpaio announced that he planned to use the armed guards for the "deterrence effect" for potential shooters. "Why would people complain about my posse being in front of schools to act as prevention?" Arpaio said in January in response to skepticism about his plan. 

From the AP:

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