Viktor Bout, the arms dealer the US swapped for Brittney Griner, joins Russian ultranationalist party and could run for parliament

Dec 13 2022 by Business Insider

 
Leonid Slutsky, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (L) and arms dealer Viktor Bout at the party's congress in Moscow, Russia, on December 12, 2022.

Aleksandr Sivov, Press Service of Liberal Democratic Party of Russia via AP

Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout returned home last week after a prisoner swap for Brittney Griner. On Monday he became a member of a far-right, ultranationalist party that backs the war in Ukraine. Bout's decision was supported by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of...
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