There's Only One Way To Cure An Olympic Hangover, And That's To Ride Dirty With a Badass Biker Gang
Yahoo — A group of Russian bikers called the Night Wolves that regularly rides with President Vladimir Putin is heading to Ukraine to back pro-Russian protests, its leader said Friday. Putin has ridden a Harley-Davidson with the bikers and called them his “brothers”. He is said to be close to its long-haired leader, Alexander Zaldostanov, nicknamed “the Surgeon”. The patriotic group opposes Ukraine’s European integration and the protest movement that has taken power in Kiev. Its website says its members are “ready to die like warriors”. “Tomorrow people are organising an action called Russian Spring,” Zaldostanov told the RIA Novosti news agency, saying the event would start from the town of Popasnaya in eastern Ukraine. The bikers’ leader said members also planned to deliver “humanitarian aid” to Sevastopol on four-wheeler bikes. Putin has several times appeared at bike rallies with Zaldostanov, a towering figure who wears studded leather and ties his long hair back in a pony tail.
There’s getting back on the horse, and then there’s this. Putin just picking up the pieces from an Olympic hockey beatdown like it ain’t no thing. Riding with the baddest dudes in Russia. Trying to reassert his dominance like Sochi 2014 never happened. Thing is, you just know ol’ Vladdy looks up to to The Surgeon. Posters of him on his bedroom wall and everything. You don’t go into an organization who says they’re “ready to die like warriors” and usurp power from a guy named “The Surgeon”. That’s factual information, look it up. Guy definitely puts Putin in a headlock and gives him noogies til he yells uncle. So nice try, Putin, but you’re not slipping this one past me. You’re playing second fiddle to the Surgeon now.