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Viktor Bout, a former Russian arms dealer exchanged in a prisoner swap with
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Bout, popularly known as the “Merchant of Death,” is seeking a seat with the
Liberal Democratic Party in the Legislative Assembly in the Ulyanovsk region,
Russia’s state-owned news agency, TASS, reported. The party advocates policies
many consider to be to the right of President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia
Party.

In December 2022, President Joe Biden announced that Griner, imprisoned after
cannabis vape cartridges were discovered in her luggage at Moscow Airport, would
be released in exchange for Bout.

Following his return to Russia, Bout went on a media junket across the country
and praised Putin’s handling of the invasion of Ukraine. “I am proud that I am a
Russian person, and our president is Putin,” Bout told the state-sponsored media
outlet, RT.

“I know that we will win. . . . Why did we not do it earlier?”

Shortly after his return, Bout shared a podium with Leonid Slutsky, the Liberal
Democratic Party leader, and announced his support for them.



“I want to thank Viktor Anatolyevich [Bout] for the decision he has made and
welcome him into the ranks of the best political party in today’s Russia,”
Slutsky said in a video address boasting of Bout’s endorsement.

At the time, the announcement even drew the backing of Wagner Group executive
Yevgeny Prigozhin who called Bout “an example of firmness.”

“Bout will certainly be good at the head of any existing party and any
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The arms smuggler was arrested by U.S. federal agents during a sting operation
in Thailand in 2008. Bout was sentenced to 25 years in prison after he was
convicted on four counts of conspiring to kill Americans, acquiring and
exporting anti-aircraft missiles, and sending material aid to a terrorist
entity. Weapons procured by Bout, U.S. intelligence argued, were bound for the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

“Viktor Bout, in my eyes, is one of the most dangerous men on the face of the
Earth,” former chief of operations for the DEA, Michael Braun, told 60 Minutes
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