Made a mistake- source is Telegraph, not RT!
heads up when I clicked on the photo......i got two porn popups/
I clicked on the link and got a virus warning.
They began life as an anti-Soviet underground group and are now favored by the Kremlin for being evangelists of Pan Slavic nationalism.
Hell’s Angels, indeed.
Ivan the Terrible had the Oprichniki, loyalist thugs who worked only at night dressed all in black, riding black horses with cut-off brooms tied to their saddles, symbolic of their oath to sweep away the Tsar’s enemies. Sounds like Putin has learned from history.
If as reported there in a large faction that is anti-Jewish in the new Ukrainian interim government, they just might have a point. The bandits part is a stretch. We'll see when(if) the Ukrainians finish mobilizing.
Larry David is a member of the Night Wolves?
Tabloid geopolitics.
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“There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.” – Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings
Every good KGB operation needs it’s unofficial thugs. This is from an article prior to the invasion. I read where they helped replace several mayors and city council prior to the invasion. I will dig for that article. I expect yo see this pattern in the next northern state until someone stops Putin.
Vladimir Putin’s motorcycle gang is riding into Ukraine
Here comes the cavalry. As Moscow weighs how to handle the political situation unfolding in Kiev, Vladimir Putin’s motorcycle gang, a group named the Night Wolves, whom Putin has called his “brothers,” is wasting no time making their allegiances clear. The group is staging a ride across the border into Ukraine to rally pro-Russian protesters.
As Ukraine transforms itself in a new era, all eyes have been on Russia to see how strongly Putin will try to strong-arm the nation back under the control of Mother Russia and push it away from European integration. Ukranian president Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia and the Kremlin is thought to be harboring him. And Putin has said it has yet to decide whether to withhold funds from the country’s new leadership.
The move by the Night Wolves is the latest sign that Putin intends to apply some muscle to keep Ukraine under Russian influence. Alexander Zaldostanov, the group’s leather-clad, pony-tailed leader nicknamed “The Surgeon,” said, “Tomorrow people are organizing an action called Russian Spring.”
Last year Putin personally awarded Zaldostanov with a state honor after he and his crew helped restore a monument “symbolic of Soviet war heroism” in Volgograd, reports AFP—the same city where separatist suicide bombers killed 34 late in the same year.
“The column will start at 8:00 am and ride across the whole eastern part of Ukraine,” Zaldostanov said.
Zaldostanov said he was personally going to Crimea, an area that has emerged as critical in the unfolding conflict, with many residents loyal to Ukraine’s ousted leadership. Zaldostanov said he was going to deliver “humanitarian aid.”
The Kiev branch of the Night Wolves writes that their mission is to “spread Russian influence around the world.”
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