Topic - Viktor Bout

Speaking in an interview for RT channel with Maria Butina, who also served 18 months in a U.S. prison after being convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the United States, Bout said he was still struggling to control his emotions after his imprisonment.

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He said he was “led to believe that things were moving in the right direction and that the governments were negotiating and that something would happen fairly soon.”

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