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Viktor Bout
Sign in to saveAlso known as Viktor Anatolyevich But, Viktor Anatolyevich Bout, Victor Bout, Victor Anatoliyevich Bout, Viktor Budd, Viktor But
Russian convicted illegal arms dealer
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- Listeners
- 15
- Total plays
- 22
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo
· 1951 · cited 10,360x
- THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF SUBSTANCES WITH SIMULTANEOUSLY NEGATIVE VALUES OF $\epsilon$ AND μ
· 1968 · cited 9,424x
- Comparison of multiple Amber force fields and development of improved protein backbone parameters
· 2006 · cited 6,505x
- Climbing the Density Functional Ladder: Nonempirical Meta–Generalized Gradient Approximation Designed for Molecules and Solids
· 2003 · cited 6,503x
- THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
· 2009 · cited 4,651x
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Key facts
- Born
- Viktor Anatolyevich Bout , ( 1967-01-13 ) 13 January 1967 (age 59) , Dushanbe , Tajik SSR , Soviet Union
- Party
- Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (2022–present)
- Spouse
- Alla Bout ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1992 )
- Children
- Yelizaveta Bout
- Occupation
- Arms dealer
- Nickname s
- Merchant of Death , Vadim Markovich Aminov , Viktor Bulakin , Viktor Butt , Viktor Budd , Boris
- Criminal status
- Repatriated to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange
- Criminal charge
- Conspiring to kill, acquiring and export missiles, providing material to a terrorist organization
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- victorbout.ru
- Image
- Эдуард Слуцкий и Виктор Бут (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1967-01-13
- Commons category
- Viktor Bout
- nickname
- Merchant of Death
- pseudonym
- Boris
- name in native language
- Виктор Анатольевич Бут
- P10632
- Viktor Bout
- start of work period
- 1990-00-00
- end of work period
- 2008-00-00
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Article
Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (/buːt/; Russian: Ви́ктор Анато́льевич Бут, romanized: Viktor Anatolyevich But; born 13 January 1967) is a Russian arms dealer and politician. A weapons manufacturer and former Soviet military translator, he used his companies to smuggle arms from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s. Bout gained the epithet the "Merchant of Death" after British minister Peter Hain read a report to the United Nations in 2003 on Bout's wide-reaching operations, extensive clientele, and willingness to bypass embargoes.
In a 2008 US sting operation, Bout was arrested in Thailand on terrorism charges by the Royal Thai Police in cooperation with American authorities and Interpol. The United States Ambassador to Thailand Eric G. John requested his extradition, which was mandated by the Supreme Court of Thailand in 2010. Bout was accused of intending to sell arms to a United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informer pretending to represent the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for use against American forces in Colombia, but Bout denied the charges and predicted an acquittal.