AP: Viktor Bout’s Wife Awaits His Return to Russia

EXCERPT:

BOUT: “Viktor and I talked on Tuesday, he didn’t know anything yet. It was the day before yesterday. Today he was supposed to call me, we were just waiting for his call at 20:00. Well, we will meet and hug. Naturally, I followed all the publications, all the top officials including (Russian Foreign Minister Sergey) Lavrov, and (Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey) Ryabkov, and everyone in general. And, of course, I have been running over in my head imagining when it will happen, you kind of hope that it will happen, and today Maria Butina called me and said, ‘Well, hold on!’ I said, okay, everything is clear.”