In the deep forests of Slovakia, former Russian special forces trained young men from the right-wing paramilitary group Slovak Conscripts, writes The Atlantic. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, some of these newly minted paramilitaries traveled to eastern Ukraine to fight alongside Russian troops, while others remained ...
The Night Wolves motorcycle club received a presidential grant of 9 million rubles ($ 150) to organize Christmas trees. "The action recreates the atmosphere of a Russian folk tale ... The historical and spiritual heritage of the Russian people, today's problems of Russia are taught in a fabulous, and therefore understandable for children, manner," says the description of the motorcycle club project. "Night ...
The Ukrainian Security Service suspected Russian biker Alexander Zaldostanov, also known as “The Surgeon,” of financing the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass. According to a press release from the SBU, a case of financing terrorism has been opened against Zaldostanov. He himself has not yet commented on this information. The SBU claims that Zaldostanov, being...
The leader of the Russian biker club “Night Wolves” Alexander Zaldostanov confirmed that he received 56 million rubles from the Russian government over the year. Part of this money was given out because stern men in leather jackets frightened Russian children with stories about how bad...
The authorities of Sevastopol (Crimea) decided to allocate a land plot to the Night Wolves motorcycle club “for the construction of a multifunctional sports and patriotic center for extreme sports”. The plot with an area of 227 hectares, "Night Wolves" will be leased on favorable terms. The cost of 1 square meter of land is set at 536 rubles (about $ 11), ...
Bikers from the Night Wolves motorcycle club rode to the German capital and visited the Russian-German Berlin-Karlshorst Museum on Friday. Representative of the motorcycle club Alexander Shapovalov reported this to TASS. “We are in Berlin, tomorrow we want to honor the memory of the fallen soldiers at the memorials in Treptow and Tiergarten parks,”...
A Berlin court lifted the entry ban for a group of Russian bikers who were going to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory in World War II with a motorcycle rally through the German capital. In April, German federal police denied entry to representatives of the pro-Kremlin Night Wolves movement after ...
Yuri Vasilyev, a member of the Russian bike club “Night Wolves”, detained in Germany, had his visa revoked on Tuesday morning, and the man went back to Finland, a representative of the federal police press service said. “If we are talking about the person who came from Finland on the ferry, then this morning at the beginning of four he voluntarily went on the ferry...
Information appeared in the official blog of bikers that the participants of the race crossed the border. At the same time, which border was not specified. Andrey Bobrovsky, the head of the motor rally dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory, told about this. “I am in Moscow because I have a canceled visa, for me this ...
The Lithuanian Border Service claims that it did not allow eight members of the Night Wolves biker club to enter its territory. Some of the motorcyclists tried to enter Lithuania from the side of Belarus near the balneological resort of Druskininkai, while other bikers besieged the checkpoint from the Kaliningradskaya side...