(01 of09)
Open Image ModalIn this Monday, Aug. 29, 2011 photo, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center left, and leader of Nochniye Volki (the Night Wolves) biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, also known as Khirurg (the Surgeon), right, ride bikes at a motor bikers\' festival in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, POOL, file) (credit:AP)
(02 of09)
Open Image ModalA picture taken on July 7, 2009, shows Vladimir Putin, 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 \'Night Wolves\' biker club\'s headquarters. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(03 of09)
Open Image ModalVladimir Putin, center, and leader of the Night Wolves biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, right, as they ride bikes at a motor bikers\' festival in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Russia, Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, pool) (credit:AP)
(04 of09)
Open Image ModalVladimir Putin (C) poses for a photo with members of the \'Night Wolves\' bikers\' movement after watching a friendly football match between of Serbia\'s FC Crvena Zvezda Belgrade and Russia\'s FC Zenit St Petersburg junior teams at Marakana Stadium in Belgrade, on March 23, 2011. (ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(05 of09)
Open Image ModalRussian President Vladimir Putin (C) and Night Wolves Moscow Bikers club leader Alexander \'Khirurg\' Zaldostanov (L) attend the opening of the Barmaley Fountain during a wider ceremony to remember the 40, 000 people who died on this day in 1942, when the city was bombed by Nazi Germany, on August 23, 2013 in Volgograd, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(06 of09)
Open Image ModalVladimir Putin (R) speaks with a biker as he takes part in the 16th annual motorbike festival held by \'The Night Wolves\' youth organization in the southern Russian town of Novorossiysk, on August 29, 2011. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(07 of09)
Open Image ModalVladimir Putin (L) hands over a medal to the leader of the Night Wolves biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, during Putin\'s meeting with members of the Military History Society in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on March 14, 2013. (MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(08 of09)
Open Image ModalVladimir Putin pays a surprise visit to the headquarters of the \'Night Wolves\' biker club in Moscow on July 7, 2009. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(09 of09)
Open Image ModalVladimir Putin, center, and leader of the Night Wolves biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, right, pose for a press attending a meeting of motorbikers at their camp at Gasfort lake near Sevastopol in Ukraine\'s Crimea Peninsula, Saturday, July 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) (credit:AP Photo)