The Russian president rode with the Night Wolves and posed for pictures and selfies in his leather jacket, while tens of thousands of Russians protested on the streets of Moscow
Vladimir Putin has attended a biker show organised by a motorcycle club in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine five years ago.
Mr Putin shook hands with the biker club's leader Alexander Zaldostanov, and rode a Ural motorbike near the Crimean city of Sevastopol.
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