Viktor Bout, sometimes dubbed the "Merchant of Death," was arrested in a US sting operation in 2008, having spent decades smuggling Soviet-made weapons from Europe to the Middle East and Africa.

A US court has sentenced Viktor Bout, a.k.a. the “merchant of death,” to 25 years in prison. Much has been written about Bout, who supplied tyrants and terrorists the world over with weapons, often ...

MOSCOW, January 26. /TASS/. Viktor Bout, a Russian national who was released from US captivity in December, said that American authorities tried to gather compromising information about senior ...