Viktor Bout became a member of Russia’s pro-Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party just days after being released from a US prison and exchanged for Brittney Griner.
, has joined an ultranationalist political party and heaped praise on President Vladimir Putin — whose portrait he said he had displayed in his cell during his incarceration.
, telling former spy-turned-journalist Maria Butina that he supported Putin and kept the president’s photo in his cell at a medium-security prison in Illinois for the entire duration of his incarceration. Bout’s decision to become a card-carrying member of the hardline LDPR has ignited speculations that he could be eyeing a parliament seat.
“Viktor Bout is not a man — he’s an ideal of firmness,’ Prigozhin said in a statement released by his catering company. “That is why Bout undoubtedly be good as the head of any existing political party and any movement. And in any case he will command people’s respect.”
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