Poland to stop Russia’s Night Wolves from crossing border?
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
29.04.2016 12:51
Poland has announced it will not allow the Russian Night Wolves biker club to enter the country, while the Kremlin calls Polish ambassador to Moscow for a meeting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets the Night Wolves in Sevastopol in 2012. Photo: cc/kremlin.ru
“Poland will not let the Russian Night Wolves motorcycle club [enter the country],” said Bartosz Cichocki, the spokesman for the Polish embassy in Moscow.
The group – whose leader Alexander Zaldostanov is considered an associate of Russian president Vladimir Putin – set out from Moscow to Berlin and hoped to pass through Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria, to reach the German capital on 9 May.
In 2015, the group was stopped from entering Poland during a similar ride to mark the “70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War”.
On Friday, the Russian Sputnik news agency said that Polish Ambassador to Russia, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, had been summoned by the Kremlin in relation to the ban.
“The Polish ambassador to Russia has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry due to an entry ban for a group of Russian bikers,” Sputnik quoted the RIA Novosti agency as saying. (rg)