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Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com

Viktor Bout, known as Russia’s merchant of death, was handed a 25-year jail sentence in New York.

Moscow was offended, and called it “absolutely unacceptable” and a “politically motivated” miscarriage of justice.

“It’s even more outrageous that this is not the first politically motivated sentence lacking a foundation of evidence; not the first case when the rightful interests of Russian citizens are violated by the American authorities,” said Russian Foreign Ministry official Konstantin Dolgov.

Arguably the most proliferative, ruthless and elusive arms dealer in the post-Soviet era, Bout, 45, served in the Soviet Air Force until 1992 when the Soviet empire collapsed.

He then retired from active duty and entered the dark world of trade in international Soviet arms trafficking with strong Russian government acquiescence, or even collusion.

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