In #Bulgaria, An Open Road For #Putin's Favorite Biker Gang, The #NightWolves
By Genka Shikerova and Tony Wesolowsky, September 04, 2022
https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-night-wolves-russia-putin/32017720.html
Because of their friendly ties to the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin, the Russian bikers, the Night Wolves, face roadblocks across the EU. But in Bulgaria, a branch of the gang is cruising along, meeting and greeting Russian officials and blessed by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
Il club di motociclisti, da sempre vicino a Putin, vuole celebrare la vittoria sul nazifascismo presso il memoriale sovietico.
#NightWolves #Treptowerpark #Berlino #8maggio #Russia
https://www.ilmitte.com/2025/04/night-wolves-berlino-80-anniversario-vittoria/
Dammit! I hate to say, "I told you so," but I TOLD YOU SO!
#Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’
The group, led by #Blackwater veteran #ErikPrince, has close Trump ties.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
#ErikPrinceColonialism #SilencingDissent #PrivateArmy #Russia #Spetsnaz #NightWolves #authoritarianism #NoDAPL #PutinsArmy #Fascism #Academi #TripleCanopy #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal #CorporateColonialism #CorporateInterests #WaterIsLife #WaterDefenders #StandWithStandingRock #LandDefenders #BigOilAndGas
@fergabell @OldSquida2 Abstract
A Hybrid Threat: The #NightWolves Motorcycle Club
Kira Harris
July 2020
"Hybrid threat actors are dynamic and often intentionally disguise their intentions. While the Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves dress comparably to outlaw motorcycle gangs, open source materials describe the club as posing a distinctly different national security threat. The Night Wolves’ ambiguity and covert activities make the club hard to analyze; however, this case study uses open source materials to provide insight into their activities and characteristics across an array of security domains. International incidents indicate members and associates have the capability and resources to engage in crime, corruption and politically-motivated violence both for personal interests, as well as the furtherance of Russian goals."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1862752
From 2018: The #NightWolves: Russian Motorcycle Club or Kremlin Militia?
"The Night Wolves, Nochnye Volki in Russian, are a Russian motorcycle club that over the last two decades has morphed into a pan-European corporation and a mini-conglomerate of about 60 different businesses. Their activities include consumer organizations, entertainment, security services and a variety of manufacturing businesses ranging from motorcycle accessories to clothing.
"They have also been implicated in several Kremlin-sponsored covert operations in eastern Ukraine and in the Russian takeover of Crimea. And they were suspected of being involved in the assassination of Milo Djukanovic, the president of Montenegro. The assassination is now seen as an attempt to derail the country's entry into NATO.
"Nicknamed Putin's Angels, they are widely seen as a sort of militia that operates in a variety of roles at the Kremlin's behest while, at the same time, affording the Russian government the luxury of denying any responsibility for their actions.
The group, many of its leaders and several of its affiliated companies, has been placed on sanctions lists by the U.S., Canada and several European countries."
@fergabell @OldSquida2 Seems #Spetsnaz / #Nightwolves have been active in Bosnia...
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-night-wolves-biker-gang-spotted-bosnia-1772408
More about what Putin's Night Wolves are all about. Sounds a lot like the other Fascist / NeoNazi movements that have crawled out from under a rock in recent years...
Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men
Fight clubs, neo-Nazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serve as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries.
By Michael Carpenter
August 29, 2018
"Deep in the forests of Slovakia, former Russian #Spetsnaz commandos trained young men from a right-wing paramilitary group called the Slovak Conscripts. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, some of these freshly-minted paramilitaries went to fight with Russian forces in eastern Ukraine while others stayed at home to agitate against NATO as a 'terrorist organization.'
"On the streets of the French city Marseille, Russian soccer hooligans sporting tattoos with the initials of Russia’s military intelligence service, #GRU, brutally attacked English soccer fans in June 2016, sending dozens of bloodied fans to the hospital. Alexander Shprygin, an #ultranationalist agitator and the head of the All-Russian Union of Supporters (a soccer fan club that he claims was established at the behest of the Russian Federal Security Service, or #FSB), was arrested during the melee and deported from #France.
"In Budapest’s Fiumei Road Cemetery in May 2017, a Russian motorcycle gang carrying giant red flags displaying the Soviet hammer and sickle rode up to a World War II memorial. Somewhat incongruously, the tattooed bikers, accompanied by pinstriped Russian Embassy diplomats, disembarked from their motorcycles to lay red carnations in front of the memorial and then posted a video clip of it online.
It seems almost too strange to be true: fight clubs, #NeoNazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serving as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries. It sounds more like an episode of The Americans with a dash of Mad Max and Fight Club mixed in. Yet this is exactly what is happening across #Europe and #NorthAmerica as Russia’s intelligence services co-opt fringe radicals and angry young men to try to undermine Western democracies from within. And not just in the virtual world, but in real life."
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#SpetsnazMC is very much still active.
"The first, the one, and the only Russian-speaking Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club in the United States — SPETSNAZ LE MC is proud to announce the change of our main patch from the old Russian two-headed eagle to a star covered by a thin blue line."
Found this gem from 2015. Hmmmm.... The source is Sputnik News
#Russian-American #Police #MotorcycleClub to Meet in New York
"#SpetsnazMC that unites former employees of the #SpecialForces, retired and current #police of the #UnitedStates and the former Soviet Union plans to participate in numerous charity events and races in an effort to donate proceeds to families in need.
"A motorcycle club consisting of past and present Russian-American police officers will hold its first annual meeting in New York City, Spetsnaz Motor Club President German Bickbau told Sputnik on Friday.
"'On August 10, we will hold our first annual meeting of the club Spetsnaz LE MC in New York City,' Bickbau said. 'We invite all fans of motorcycles, all those wanting to do good deeds and not remain in the shadows, to join us.'
[...]
"The club is headquartered in the US state of Florida, where #Bickbau serves as a deputy sheriff in #BrowardCounty, #Florida.
"The club is currently in the process of negotiating the establishment of branches in #NewYork, #NewJersey and other US states."
Spetsnaz Motor Club that unites former employees of the Special Forces, retired and current police of the United States and the former Soviet Union plans to participate in numerous charity events and races in an effort to donate proceeds...
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