The Latest Breaking News from Viktor Bout

Moscow says Griner was traded for Viktor Bout, a Russian former arms dealer convicted and jailed in the United States.

Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials said. The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for President Joe Biden, but carried a heavy price…

Deputy foreign minister says convicted Russian arms deal Viktor Bout is among those being discussed in potential swap.

Basketball star Ms Griner was sentenced in August to nine years for possessing and smuggling drugs after cannabis oil was found in her luggage at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport

The life of Viktor Bout reads like a spy thriller.

Russia said on Friday it hoped to clinch a prisoner swap with the United States to return convicted Russian weapons trafficker Viktor Bout, known as the "Merchant of Death", in an exchange that would likely include U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner.

A show of prison artwork by a Russian arms trader serving 25 years in the United States and the focus of speculation about a prisoner swap that could free WBNA star Brittney Griner has opened at the upper chamber of the Russian parliament

Her lawyers said Wednesday that they did not know exactly where she was or where she would end up — but that they expected to be notified when she reached her final destination.

WNBA star Brittney Griner, whose appeal against a nine-year sentence was rejected by a Moscow court last month, is being moved to a penal colony, her lawyers said Wednesday.