MOSCOW - Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who returned home Thursday in a swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner, is widely known abroad as the “In Russia, however, he's seen as a swashbuckling businessman who was unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive U.S. sting operation.
Bout's mother, Raisa, thanked President Vladimir Putin and the Foreign Ministry for freeing her son, Tass reported. “He's done enough time for what he did in this case,” Shira A. Scheindlin told The Associated Press in July as prospects for his release appeared to rise. “From the resonant Bout case, a real `hunt' by Americans for Russian citizens around the world has unfolded,” the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta wrote last year.
Biden left a Marine behind - that says it all.
Biggest joke ever what worlddo I livein
Supplied the middle east with alll types. Used against Americans. Alot of lives are losted becausr he sold weapons....he knows to many people
Remember the poor guy on North Korea? If it was a regular person? Be still sitting in a cell, and there probably are right now in Russia.
This should terrify you.
Americans got played so bad
Biggest trade in WNBA history
Just go watch Lord of War
Welcome home Viktor. 🏠
Also point out sometimes you have to give up a bad guy to get a good person home.
Let’s all be honest. If she wasn’t Gay Black Woman They would not have traded him for her.
Like trading Russ Coutnall for John Kordic
A somebody who got released for a nobody
Let’s hope a drone locates this guy in the next few months.
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