Viktor Bout spoke at the launch of a Luhansk branch of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
On December 17, Viktor Bout, who returned to Russia from a U.S. prison in early December, took part in the opening of a new branch of the right-wing nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, in Ukrainian Luhansk, which is currently under Russian control. In a speech, Bout compared the “return to Russia” of the occupied territories in eastern Ukraine to his own personal return to the Russian Federation.