Vladimir Putin's favourite biker has been targeted by new US sanctions against Moscow over the Kremlin's armed intervention in Ukraine. Barack Obama, the US president, issued an executive order this weekend prohibiting trade with the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in March.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
The Telegraph: US slaps sanctions on Putin’s biker gang over Ukraine
A picture taken on July 7, 2009, shows Vladimir Putin (L), then Russian Prime Minister, listening to the leader of Nochniye Volki (the Night Wolves) biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov (R), also known as Khirurg (the Surgeon), during Putin's visit to the group's club in Moscow.
