Russia head coach Leonid Slutskiy had on Saturday included the Schalke 04 defender Neustadter, who has been living in Germany since he was a child and has played for Germany's youth teams, in his squad for next month's tournament in France.
"In accordance with article 89 of the Russian constitution, I decree that I am satisfied with the application made by Roman Neustadter, who was born on February 18, 1988 in Ukraine, to become a Russian citizen," Putin said on Russia's official legal information website (www.pravo.gov.ru) on Wednesday.
Neustadter, 28, can now play for Russia in a friendly with the Czech Republic on June 1. The Russians have been drawn in Group B at Euro 2016, alongside England, Slovakia and Wales.
(Reporting by Dmitriy Rogovitskiy; editing by Ken Ferris)
