Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer traded for Brittney Griner, has joined a radical political group and is running for office in Russia.
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The arms dealer, once known as the"merchant of death," had been serving a sentence in the U.S. after his 2008 arrest in Thailand. He was freed in December 2022 as part of Griner was the subject of harassment on June 10 at the airport when YouTuber Alex Stein approached her and asked several questions, including whether she had sex with Vladimir Putin to get out of prison in Russia.
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