Viktor Bout

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Brittney Griner: Russia frees US basketball star in swap with arms ... (BBC News)

The US and Russia swap jailed basketball star Brittney Griner for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout.

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Brittney Griner freed from Russian prison in exchange for Viktor Bout (The Guardian)

Basketball star released as US agrees to free convicted arms dealer in dramatic prisoner swap.

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Viktor Bout: Russian arms dealer known as the 'Merchant of Death ... (CNN)

US basketball star Brittney Griner was freed in a prisoner exchange for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout nearly 10 months after she was arrested at a ...

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Brittney Griner Released by Russia in Viktor Bout Prisoner Swap ... (The Wall Street Journal)

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Brittney Griner was exchanged for Russian citizen Viktor Bout at Abu Dhabi Airport in the United Arab Emirates on ...

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Live updates: Brittney Griner released in swap for arms dealer Viktor ... (The Washington Post)

WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian detention and is on her way back to the United States, President Biden announced Thursday.

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Viktor Bout: Here's What To Know About Russia's 'Merchant Of War ... (Forbes)

U.S. officials released convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout in their prisoner swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner Thursday morning, returning the man known as ...

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Who is Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer swapped for Griner? (Reuters)

Russia got the jailed arms dealer back from the United States on Thursday after exchanging imprisoned U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for him at Abu Dhabi ...

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Who Is Viktor Bout, the Notorious 'Merchant of Death' Swapped for ... (Rolling Stone)

The Biden administration struck a deal to bring Brittney Griner home from Russia in exchange for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout.

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DEA agent involved in Viktor Bout investigation says he's 'disgusted ... (ABC News)

ABC News' foreign correspondent Maggie Rulli discusses the guilty verdict in the Brittney Griner trial in Russia.

"We at the DEA were just trying to step up to the plate and do the right thing for national security." helicopters in Columbia, according to Maltz. On Thursday, the WNBA star was swapped for Bout -- a Russian convicted arms dealer who spend 15 years in U.S.

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'Merchant of Death' Viktor Bout now part of a deal himself (WOKV)

MOSCOW — (AP) — Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, swapped Thursday for WNBA star Brittney Griner, is widely known abroad as the “Merchant of Death” who ...

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Who is the 'Merchant of Death' Viktor Bout? (RTE.ie)

Former Soviet air force pilot Viktor Bout, who was swapped for US basketball star Brittney Griner today, fuelled some of the world's bloodiest conflicts by ...

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