It also violated the custom that swaps involve similar sorts of prisoners—spies for spies, or criminals for criminals. Mr ...

The United States will release Russian cryptocurrency kingpin Alexander Vinnik as part of a prisoner exchange with Moscow that brought home American teacher Marc Fogel, the White House said Wednesday.

NEW YORK, October 23. /TASS/. The wife and daughter of Viktor Bout, a Russian businessman who is currently serving a 25-year sentence in a US prison, have decided to extend their stay in the ...

The document commutes Bout’s 25-year sentence to the time he has served by now to make it possible to release him NEW YORK, December 9. /TASS/. Russian national Viktor Bout who has been released ...

Viktor Bout had been serving 25 years in the U.S. on "charges of conspiring to kill Americans, delivery of anti-aircraft missiles, and aiding a terrorist organization," Politico notes, and as one ...

Vinnik’s name has been floated in a previous exchange with Russia that involved arms dealer Viktor Bout and WNBA star Brittney Griner as the United States proposed a wider exchange, an offer ...