А кінушка колись мене вразила. U.S. Jury Convicts Russian Arms Dealer Bout

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"...The 44-year-old Bout had managed to avoid capture for years before he was apprehended in Thailand in 2008 in an elaborate sting operation conducted by U.S. agents.

...Other rights groups also hailed the conviction of the man they say has enabled some of the world's bloodiest conflicts.

The case against Bout has led to tensions between Washington and Moscow.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has claimed that the United States violated international law by intercepting a foreign national in a third country and that Bout’s extradition from Thailand was the result of an “unprecedented political pressure” on the Thai government.

Speaking to reporters after Bout’s conviction, Aleksandr Otchainov, the deputy consul at Russia’s New York consulate, said that he will continue to provide legal assistance to Bout and his family.

“[We will provide] consular assistance to our citizen (eds: Bout) as well as to his family to explain the steps that we are going to discuss with him personally and with his lawyers," he said.

"More detailed comments will be given after a full analysis of the situation as it stands right now with the official position of the ministry of foreign affairs.”

Bout is perhaps best known to the general public through the violent 2005 Hollywood movie “Lord of War, where actor Nicholas Cage plays a character modeled after Bout."

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