This post can be regarded as the follow-up to ”One Picture of Dmitry Medvedev and 500 Comments”. Ironically, the difference in the number of comments (2000 vs. 500) might reflect the difference in the scales of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.

Vladimir Putin and the bikers

Vladimir Putin and bikers

Vladimir Putin with the “Night Wolves”

On July 12 Vladimir Putin met with the president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych in Yalta.

On the way from Sevastopol to Yalta, Putin made a stop to meet the group of Russian bikers “Night Wolves”, with whom he already had well publicized contacts in the past.

It’s worth to mention that for the meeting with Viktor Yanukovych scheduled for 13:00 Vladimir Putin was late for more than 3 hours. This fact was noticed by some Ukrainian politicians who called Putin’s behavior “political rudeness crossing all imaginable limits”.

Let’s return to the meeting with bikers…

Photographs from this event appeared in many Russian blogs. The picture above was posted in the blog of Alexey Navalny - prominent critic of Russian authorities.

Comments of Russian netizens

Though the post was titled simply “Ouch” and didn’t contain anything besides the picture itself – it accumulated almost 2,000 comments.

Here are some of them translated below.

reinkarnant:  Men in Black – fuck.люди в черном – хуле.

yambee_star:  This is possibly [Putin's] unrealized teen dreamэто видимо нереализованная подростковая мечта

ypsilon_z (continuing the previous comment):  To perform in circus?Выступать в цирке?

mihapro:  Alibaba and 40 thieves :))Алибаба и сорок разбойников :))

3seven:  Looks like some Korean leader.выглядит, как корейский лидер какой-нибудь

22kina:  There was no one shorter than Putin, so the guy in cap had to sit down. Ниже Путина волчка не нашлось, потому парню в кепке пришлось присесть.

saint_sergius:  Why the man in hat has a whip in his hand? What exactly were they doing there?А зачем у мужика в папахе плётка в руках? Они чем там занимались?

urmodig_skald:  Only in Russia the bikers are so politically active? Aren’t they traditionally asocial in the U.S. – the cradle of bikers? Or am I wrong?а только в России байкеры так политически активны? В колыбели байкеров, США, они не традиционно асоциальны, или я ошибаюсь?

oswid (replying to the above):  Yes, only in Russia they lick the ass of authorities.Только в России они лижут зад власти, да.

proudly_idle:  Oops, is that gay parade?Упс. Это что, гей-тусовка?

4_etverti_ik:  The biker in red shirt is sublimely trolling Putin :D Байкер в красной футболке тонко троллит Путина :D

zoOoz:

Gay bikers

martovskykot:  Biker and authorities are incompatible terms! As for the Cossacks … they are the same Cossacks, as Roman legionaries near Colosseum who take pictures with tourists. :( байкер и власть понятия не совместимые! Ну, а про казаков … они такие же казаки, как римские легионеры, которые возле Колизея с туристами фотографируются. :(

skoloda:  Good photo. And the fact that it causes so much suffering from the fans of Navalny says more about themselves. This theme is the litmus test of  ”who’s who.” Хорошее фото. И то, что оно вызывает такие страдания у тусовки Навального больше говорят о них самих. Эта тема – лакмусовая бумажка ‘кто есть кто’.

salaarhlaalu:  Judging by the comments, people with whom Putin takes pictures are by default idiots, scum, degenerates, dunce.Судя по комментариям, если Путин сфоткался с людьми то значит они по дефолту идиоты, мрази, дегенераты, долбоёбы.

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