The Most Famous
EXTREMISTS from Tajikistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Tadzhik Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 283 Extremists, 1 of which were born in Tajikistan. This makes Tajikistan the birth place of the 38th most number of Extremists behind South Africa, and Uganda.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tadzhik Extremists of all time. This list of famous Tadzhik Extremists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Viktor Bout (b. 1967)
With an HPI of 54.15, Viktor Bout is the most famous Tadzhik Extremist. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.
Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (; Russian: Ви́ктор Анато́льевич Бут; born 13 January 1967) is a Tajik-born Russian arms dealer and politician. A weapons manufacturer and former Soviet military translator, he used his multiple companies to smuggle arms from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s. Bout gained the nicknames the "Merchant of Death" and "Sanctions Buster" after British minister Peter Hain read a report to the United Nations in 2003 on Bout's wide-reaching operations, extensive clientele, and willingness to bypass embargoes. In a US sting operation Bout was arrested in 2008 in Thailand on terrorism charges by the Royal Thai Police in cooperation with American authorities and Interpol. The United States Ambassador to Thailand Eric G. John requested his extradition, which was mandated by the Supreme Court of Thailand in 2010. Bout was accused of intending to sell arms to a United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informer pretending to represent the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for use against American forces in Colombia, but Bout denied the charges and predicted an acquittal. In 2011 Bout was convicted by a jury at a federal court in Manhattan, of conspiracy to kill American citizens and officials, delivery of anti-aircraft missiles, and providing aid to a terrorist organization; he was sentenced to the minimum 25 years' imprisonment. From 2012 until 2022, Bout was held at the United States Penitentiary, Marion. In 2022, he was released in a prisoner exchange for American basketball player Brittney Griner, who had been sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment for bringing less than 1g of cannabis oil into Russia. Bout had served 10 years in prison before his release in December 2022. After returning to Russia, Bout joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia in 2022 and stood to run for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ulyanovsk Oblast as a member of the LDPR on July 2, 2023. He won.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Tadzhik extremists born between 1967 and 1967. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Tadzhik extremists include Viktor Bout.
