Viktor Bout
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Viktor Anatolyevich Bout is a Russian arms dealer and politician. A weapons manufacturer and former Soviet military translator, he used his companies to smuggle arms from Eastern Europe to Africa and
Bout in 2022
An Il-76 formerly used by Bout's Centrafrican Airlines
An Il-76 formerly used by Air Cess and Air Pass, a joint venture between Bout and a South African company
Bout in DEA custody (16 November 2010)
On 1 August 2024, the United States and Russia conducted the most extensive prisoner exchange since the end of the Cold War, involving the release of twenty-six people. The exchange was realized at th
The three American nationals released in the exchange are joined by government officials and staff on their return flight to the United States: Evan Gershkovich (bottom-left), Paul Whelan (second from right), and Alsu Kurmasheva (bottom-right)
Protest outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin demanding the release of Russia's political prisoners, February 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden and family members of the released Americans speaking with the prisoners by phone in the Oval Office, following the release of the Americans kept prisoner
Vadim Krasikov and others are received by a guard of honor at Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow.