ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man might have walked away as the biggest winner of last week’s high stakes summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage. He rode off with a new motorcycle, courtesy of the Russian government.

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Mark Warren, of Anchorage, said he was handed the keys to the spanking new Ural motorbike in a motel parking lot by a Russian embassy employee last week after Vladimir Putin’s high-stakes

An Alaskan man was given a motorcycle last week, labeled as an “act of giving” by Russian President Vladimir Putin – but he has no idea why he was chosen.

Russian President Vladimir Putin “personally gifted” a Ural bike reportedly valued at $22,000 to a “random” man when he was in Alaska on 15 August to attend a summit with US President Donald Trump.