Putin, The Bikers and Sevastopol Bike Show.

Meet the Night Wolves -- Putin’s Hell’s Angels The fiercely patriotic motorcycle gang are a key source of Russian soft power in former Soviet States. So it’s odd that Russian President Vladimir Putin has struck up an enduring friendship with the group’s leader, Alexander Zaldostanov, a man nicknamed ’The Surgeon’. Indeed, Mr Putin’s links to the group are considerable enough that he was accidentally put on a blacklist by Finnish authorities, banning him from entering the country. Finnish authorities later s