'Merchant of Death' Viktor Bout trades prison for politics after return to Russia

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'Merchant of Death' Viktor Bout trades prison for politics after return to Russia
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An arms trafficker nicknamed the 'Merchant of Death' and traded by the Biden administration for basketball star Brittney Griner in a controversial prisoner swap last year is back on Russian soil and running for elected office.

An arms trafficker nicknamed the "Merchant of Death" and traded by the Biden administration for basketball star Brittney Griner in a controversial prisoner swap last year is back on Russian soil and running for elected office.

“I’ve been for 15 years locked up in your federal system,” he said in an interview with the New York Times conducted in Moscow. “So what do you expect for me, that I have to take time to take vacation? Heck no. I’ve got to do everything for my country.” "When you’re absent for 15 years from country, you need to start somewhere,” he said. “So for me, going into regional office, it’s a better way to understand the problems. I need to meet people. I need to learn how they live.”

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