Not sure why it took so long for them to get this done, but glad she's finally coming back.
Also if you look up pictures of Viktor Bout, he's the lovechild of Nicholas Cage and Super Mario.
Not sure why it took so long for them to get this done, but glad she's finally coming back.
Also if you look up pictures of Viktor Bout, he's the lovechild of Nicholas Cage and Super Mario.
Glad she's free, it was a ridiculous sham that they locked her up in the first place.
I have yet to see any theories on what the Russians actually get out of freeing Bout- 12 years in prison will have made lots of his connections go cold and Russia doesn't exactly need help getting weapons since they produce most of their own. I remember his brother was rumoured to be some military intelligence bigwig at one point, it'd be sweet in a very awful way if all this was organized just to get him out for a family reunion
It sends a message to their people that they will not be abandoned. That kind of stuff is valuable.
it's a basketballer the Americans weren't going to give them anyone they really wanted in the exchange
It’s just for PR. There’s reason why they reject to swap the marine dude