Vladimir Putin meets with members of a motorcycle club and attends a game between youth football clubs Zenit and Crvena Zvezda

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Macedonian and Serbian bikers at the Marakana stadium in Belgrade before a game between the Zenit and Crvena Zvezda youth football clubs. Putin arrived with his Serbian counterpart Mirko Cvetkovic.

Having met each other for the first time at a bike show in Sevastopol last year , Putin and the bikers exchanged cordial greetings and went to watch the football game.

The fans at the stadium greeted the Russian prime minister with a storm of applause, waving Russian flags and chanting "Russia." Some fans even held Putin's portrait. After the announcement that Putin was in the stadium, the fans began singing Katyusha, a popular Soviet wartime song, while setting off flares.