Nouvelle liste de personnalités russes sanctionnées : du lourd !
US slaps sanctions on Putin’s biker gang over Ukraine - Telegraph
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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.
Among those added to the US Treasury blacklist are the Night Wolves biker gang, a group of denim and leather-clad ultranationalists that Mr Putin has befriended.
Alexander Zaldostanov, 51, the leather-clad head of the Night Wolves who frequently meets with Mr Putin, was also on the list, along with prominent figures from the pro-Moscow rebel authorities who are fighting government troops in eastern Ukraine.
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On Saturday, the bikers’ leader told a Moscow radio station that he wanted to thank Mr Obama for “appreciating” his achievements by adding him to the list.
“I’ve already been called and congratulated by about a hundred people,” said Mr Zaldostanov, with whom Mr Putin has ridden on a Harley Davidson trike. “I would very much like to thank Obama for recognising my modest services to the motherland. And I promise that I will do all I can so that his concern for me only grows.”
(dont RIA Novosti suit fidèlement la couleur des cheveux)
Also on the list was Natalya Poklonskaya, a 34-year-old prosecutor from Crimea, whose good looks and staunch criticisms of Ukraine’s pro-Western independence movement made a hero in pro-Kremlin circles earlier this year. She became an internet sensation when she was appointed in March, attracting a particular following in China and Japan where she prompted a wave of anime fan art.