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Zaldostanov, head of Russian bikers and "brother" Putin
A week before the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Alexander Zaldostanov, ultra-nationalist and Orthodox biker called to "exterminate" the opponents. Meeting.
Vladimir Putin and his ally Nationalist biker in 2009. (Alexsey Druginyn / RIA Novosti)
The threat was public and known to all. Ten days before the murder of Boris Nemtsov , Alexander Zaldostanov says "Surgeon" said, full of hatred:
The fear of death is the only thing that can stop the Russian opposition. "
Who is this scary character, omnipresent on Russian television last year?
A motorcyclist, 52, a fan of "Mad Max" and the Patriarch of Moscow. Putin calls his "brother". He loves it so much he did, recently, the muse of his nationalist regime - and the leader of a sort of Praetorian Guard. The man, a ponytail giant nicknamed "The Surgeon" in memory of his medical studies, chairs the biggest club in the country bikers, which includes a few thousand thugs, Hells Angels Panslavic release.
The cross of the Orthodox religion banned from European Union and the United States since its punches in Crimea, said he invested a double divine mission: to help Vladimir Putin, the "savior of the world" to "reunite Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. " And, above all, protect the master of the Kremlin against the "orange beast", this popular revolution that Boris Nemtsov, the opponent assassinated on February 28, was calling for for years.
Place this fanatical biker now occupies on the Russian political and media scene reveals the excesses of Putin's power - and does not bode well for Russia and for Europe.
Alexandre Zaldostanov Started with Wolves of the Night. (Valeriy Melnikov / RIA Novosti)
"Do everything to prevent them from harming"
From Moscow to Vladivostok, everyone knows the charismatic "Surgeon", his black leather suit, his Harley Davidson and tattoos. You see it everywhere, with his men - Wolves of the Night - and their big bikes. For a year, these disturbing Putin's guardian angels are all events, all official celebrations.
As strange as it may seem, they are part of the new Russian history. In February 2014, the Wolves are forcibly blocking the entrance to the Crimea, the first phase of the annexation of the peninsula. In November, in Moscow, which opens them again, live on state television, the procession of the national holiday, waving their flag that mixes Soviet red star and imperial eagle.
And 21 February, a year after the overthrow of former Ukrainian President Yanukovych is "Surgeon", which in Moscow, leading the anti-Maidan walkduring which thousands of protesters shouting at the new authorities in Kiev and chanting "we do not forget, we do not forgive." Zaldostanov had first thought of a simple slogan: "Death to fags."
At the podium, he delivered a hate speech. He said he wanted to "exterminate" the opponents of Putin, "the fifth column" and stated:
I do not call for extreme actions, but we must do everything to prevent harm. "
A very ambiguous formula, delivered only a week before the murder of Nemtsov.
Ukrainian Oleg Tsarev with (r.), During an anti-Maidan rally in Moscow on February 21, 2015. (Dmitry Sereryakov / AFP)Large biceps and clear look
The man rarely receives and always at night. Meet at 2:00 am in his club, "bike center" a vast wasteland located 20 kilometers northwest of Moscow.At the entrance, stuffed wolf, a huge Orthodox cross and truck carcasses."Sports Uniforms and camouflage prohibited," said one panel. A speaker spits "Still Loving You" Scorpions.
A guard stares at length the envoy of "Obs" the search then led into the club bar and restaurant where he will not leave the eye during the four hours of the interview. "'The Surgeon' has received so many threats," he said. The day before the fire was set to one of the center's buildings. "Surely the fascists in the pay of the Ukrainians."
The "Chief Wolf" between, wide thighs and biceps like his clear blue eyes impress. He smiled kindly and order vodka, the Beluga, "best". He explains:
Here is our territory for fifteen years. Despite my distaste for the elite Anglo-Saxon, I thought time to call Mad Max City, a tribute to my favorite movie. It makes a hectare, and since Putin came to visit him, we received permission to enlarge again. "
Patriotic rock shows
The "bike center" is a meeting place for bikers, with a disco and a training ground. "Experimental motorcycle is built there, he said. And this is where we prepare the stage, the stunts and special effects for our shows."
For man is, among other things, an impresario, the "Woodstock patriotic" to the delight of Vladimir Putin -. And ensure its propaganda through Russia and the Slavic world The show of the month of August in Sevastopol , capital of Crimea just annexed, was broadcast live on Russian state television. . A hymn to the glory of the Russian intervention in Ukraine, funded by the Ministry of Culture Alexander Zaldostanov says
It was a reconstruction of the coup Maidan. On patriotic rock bottom, I showed how the Nazis took power in Kiev with the support of the Americans. "
And he saw the big picture: "On a stage 500 meters long, there were 300 artists who have played to more than 200,000 military lent us tanks and powerful projectors.." He even built fingers 8 meters "to represent the hands of Obama who pull the strings of the world."
The amazing spectacle, broadcast appropriately when the first offensive of the Russian army in eastern Ukraine, last August, was a great success.
Unfortunately, Putin did not want to go on stage, as an apotheosis, just before the Soviet anthem. "
Putin bike center
It was the sixth "patriotic show" the "Surgeon" in Sevastopol, he early on, well before the annexation of the Crimea, designed as a pro-Russian propaganda operation. "The idea first came to me in 2008 when I returned for the first time in this city, twenty years after having spent all my childhood tells Zaldostanov." He continues:
That day, I realized that I never wanted to burst from my country, the Soviet Union. So I decided to do everything for Ukraine, where I was born, the whole of Ukraine , is made in Russia. So to mount a show on this theme in Sevastopol. What has not displeased the Russian government, since later I was blessed by the patriarch himself. "
Then Putin himself is packed. The meeting between the "national leader" and the biker goes back to 2009, two days before the first show in Sevastopol which Putin, who was then Prime Minister, decided to publicly support. As if he already cherished the idea of a turning point for his ultra-nationalist regime and maybe even a return of the Crimea to the Russian fold.
That evening, he came to 'bike center'. I was stunned. He offered me a Russian flag and we discussed. "
The two men seduce each other. "I immediately felt that he loves his country and understands. Of all the leaders of the Kremlin, he is the one whose vision is the largest since Stalin. Like me, he thinks that Russia is the only country that can save the world of moral decay, "said the Christian who has the fervor of the converted: it consumed all kinds of drugs to the risk of" dying "to a decisive meeting with an Orthodox priest in the early 1990s.
Crimea motorcycle
The Tsar and "Surgeon" quickly become inseparable. The biker recognizes:
He wanted to enjoy my fame among young nationalists, but there was something else, a complicity. "
The two friends during a motorcycle biker festival in August 2011. (Ivan SEKRETAREV / AFP)
And now the two fifties, former anarchist and former KGBiste riding as soon as possible, their Harley Davidson at the head of a column of the Wolves of the Night, on Russian roads until Novosibirsk. These trips - often televised - reinforce Putin's macho image. They also used it to issue a geopolitical message.
In 2012, the Russian president is hanging around for four hours his Ukrainian counterpart Yanukovych awaits in Kiev for an official visit. The reason for this humiliating wait? Wolves with his friends, Putin is now crisscrossing the Crimea , like, two years before its annexation, the Ukrainian peninsula was already owned by the Russian Federation.Zaldostanov repeated elsewhere:
Where Wolves, there is Russia. "
Leather pants in the Kremlin
The motorcycle gang is also involved in the soft power of their country - and the propaganda of Putin - in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, where their shows and parades, kinds of "prides" Pan-Slavic, are very famous. Last November, they accompanied the master of the Kremlin during his state visit to Belgrade.
Putin takes every opportunity to honor the very useful and very dedicated "Surgeon". In 2013, he presented him with a medal "for his activity in the patriotic education of youth." A few months later, it refers to as one of the official bearers of the Olympic flame to the Olympic Games in Sochi - games the opponent Nemtsov has denounced as "the most corrupt in history."
Russian President flatters the faithful Zaldostanov. He calls her regularly and invites the Kremlin. "I'm the only one that lets with boots, chains and leather pants," joked the biker laughs. Sometimes the president called to invite him to join in time to a dinner with foreign heads of state.
He pampers because he knows that one day he will again need him and his Wolves, perhaps even to save his regime. "Those who are against the president are enemies of Russia , so ours, "warns Zaldostanov in raccompagnant envoy of" Obs "at the entrance of his" territory. " Friends of Boris Nemtsov have been warned.
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