Victor Bout's arrest in Thailand. 2010 . File photoMOSCOW, June 8Russia is working on the return of Viktor Bout, who is serving a sentence in the United States, he has a deadline to consider the transfer to the country of citizenship to serve his sentence, said Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. «Each case of the return of our citizens to their homeland has its own history, We very much hope that our compatriot Viktor Bout will return to his homeland. Today, he has reached the deadline that allows him to consider the issue of transferring a convict to serve his sentence in the country of citizenship. It is in this direction that both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Prosecutor General's Office, and the Ministry of Justice, and we are also constantly in dialogue in order to find a compromise in resolving this issue,» Moskalkova told reporters. />Bout's wife announced the deterioration of her husband's condition in an American prison. Viktor Bout was arrested in Thailand at the American request in 2008 as a result of a provocative operation by American intelligence services and taken to the United States. In 2012, a jury in New York found the Russian guilty of preparing a conspiracy to kill US citizens and material support for terrorism. Bout denies the accusations on all counts. In Thailand, he won two extradition cases in the first instance, but then, at the appeal stage, the decisions of the courts of first instance were canceled. While still under the jurisdiction of the Thai court, Bout was taken to the United States with gross violations of both Thai and American laws. In 2012, a jury in New York found the Russian guilty, after which federal judge Shira Sheindlin sentenced him to the minimum sentence under the articles that he was charged with — 25 years in prison. To date, the Russian has served more than half of this term. Judge Sheindlin, who retired in 2016, has repeatedly stated that she considers the sentence she was forced to hand down on the Russian citizen «excessive and inappropriate». />Yaroshenko said that his case was fabricated to discredit Russia
