https://www.europesays.com/fr/156189/ Avec Scopitone, la culture électro fait la fête jusqu’au bout de la nuit à Nantes #actu #Actualités #bout #Culture #electro #EU #europe #fait #fête #FR #France #jusqu #Nantes #News #nuit #PaysDeLaLoire #RépubliqueFrançaise #scopitone

https://www.europesays.com/fr/110756/ Bleue », une manifestation poétique qui fait sens à Marseille #2025 #actu #Actualités #au #Bleue #bout #Culture #EU #europe #FR #France #manifestation #Marseille #mer #News #poétique #ProvenceAlpesCôteD'Azur #RépubliqueFrançaise #une

https://www.europesays.com/fr/110435/ Bleue », une manifestation poétique qui fait sens à Marseille #2025 #actu #Actualités #au #Bleue #bout #Culture #EU #europe #FR #France #manifestation #Marseille #mer #News #poétique #ProvenceAlpesCôteD'Azur #RépubliqueFrançaise #une

#Russian “Merchant of Death” returns to arms trade business after his release from U.S. prison. New report says Viktor #Bout agreed to sell Kalashnikov rifles to Yemeni #Houthis, #Israel’s enemies. #news #war #russia #putin #kremlin
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13331

Viktor #Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a #US jail almost two years ago in a trade with #Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney #Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to #Yemen’s #Iran-backed #Houthi militants.

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putins-merchant-of-death-is-back-in-the-arms-business-this-time-selling-to-the-houthis-10b7f521

How $50 for Ukraine led to desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia

Amateur ballerina #Ksenia #Karelina, an American and Russian dual citizen who celebrated the new year with a trip to Istanbul with her partner Chris van Heerden, a South African professional boxer, before heading to Russia to visit family, was arrested and detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on 28 January in her hometown of Yekaterinburg, about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.
Karelina may be the latest victim in a chess match over detainees between the US and Russia, which dates back more than 15 years when, in 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration arrested #Viktor #Bout, a former Soviet military officer and translator, on conspiracy charges. Bout was eventually traded in 2022 for the WNBA champion #Brittney #Griner, who Russian officials had arrested for possessing vaporizer cartridges containing less than a gram of hash oil.

In March last year, Russian officials arrested the Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich in the same place as Karelina, Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich and the ex-US marine #Paul #Whelan, arrested in 2018, are being held on bogus espionage charges, according to the US government.

In January, Moscow also arrested the English teacher #Robert #Woodland #Romanov, a dual US-Russian citizen, on drug charges.

And now Karelina.
Van Heerden is desperate to raise awareness and money for his partner’s legal defense and return.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/09/los-angeles-ballerina-russia-treason-charges?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

CQSU vs PRD Quasars photos from May 06 are done~

https://nixknax.com/bouts/18/

these photos were very much a challenge to balance, since the hour of this game was when the sun was at its brightest behind alot of the jams. these photos are the ones that survived the processing stage.

see you at PRD's next home game on June 17! https://www.tickettailor.com/events/peninsularollerderby/921640

12 Jan 2023

Hosts of Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda ambush Russia’s ‘#Merchant of #Death’ Viktor #Bout by asking him whether he is going to fight on the frontlines. No dice! He'd rather be a politician and a #propagandist.

#Russia #Ukraine #propaganda #RussianMediaMonitor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H2YPFG0yr0

Viktor #Bout’s Lawyer Confirms That #Trump Passed on Deal for Paul #Whelan, Skewers Don Jr.’s Tweet About ‘Terrorist’ Client

Attorney Steve Zissou: “Actually, they didn’t even make much of a deal about it, and they really did lose an opportunity to get Whelan home.”

https://lawandcrime.com/objections-podcast/viktor-bouts-lawyer-confirms-that-trump-passed-on-deal-for-paul-whelan-skewers-don-jr-s-tweet-about-terrorist-client

Victor #Bout did jail time he did not have "impunity".

Even if he goes back into arms sales, he'll displace other dealers and won't necessarily increase net arms sales.

Even if #Griner acted unwisely, she didn't deserve hard time (likely to have been in part due to her intersectional position in multiple targeted protected classes.)

It was a masterful stroke of on Biden's part. Unlike TFG he saved an American. She is also BTW a star athlete. Bout is a nobody loser. We traded shit for gold

11 dec 2022

Highlights from Maria #Butina's interview of Viktor #Bout, which was clumsy, odd, full of lies and unintentionally hilarious.

#Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHLBenKNjJA

#RussianMediaMonitor provides translations of curated clips broadcast by Russian state media, for the purposes of analysis of state-controlled propaganda, as well as the coverage of newsworthy information provided on the shows.

9 dec 2022

Convicted #Russian operative Maria #Butina appeared on Russian TV to assert that it was Russia's decision that Brittney #Griner was exchanged for Viktor #Bout (as opposed to Paul #Whelan), describing it as "an offer that can't be refused" & boasting about Russia's "position of power."

9 dec 2022

Meanwhile in #Russia: top state TV #propagandists reveal the narrative they'll be pushing to harm #Biden and enrage #Americans about the exchange of Brittney #Griner for Viktor #Bout by falsely claiming that it wasn't Russia's decision to oppose #Whelan's release, as opposed to Griner.

#Moskau, #Kreml
#Putin‘s erstes Telefonat nach dem erfolgreichen Gefangenenaustausch von #Griner gegen den russischen Waffenhändler #Bout.

Da #Russland jetzt ein #Terror-Staat ist, könne man auch beliefert werden, so #Peskov.

️WNBA-Star Brittney #Griner wurde im Gefangenenaustausch gegen den verurteilten Waffenhändler Viktor #Bout aus der Haft in #Russland entlassen.

1 Gramm Haschischöl zu besitzen ist also ungefähr so gefährlich, wie Waffenhandel an Terroristen für über 20 Jahre zu betreiben.