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Viktor Bout

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Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (; Russian: Ви́ктор Анато́льевич Бут; born 13 January 1967) is a 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Bout has received more than 6,858,512 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Viktor Bout is the 148th most popular extremist (up from 167th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Tajikistan (up from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Tadzhik Extremist.

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  • 6.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Viktor Bout ranks 148 out of 283. Before him are Ahmed Jabari, Ahmad Sa'adat, Anatoly Onoprienko, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Joseph Valachi, and Belle Gunness. After him are Patty Hearst, Dinko Šakić, Wilhelm Boger, Béla Kiss, Stefano Delle Chiaie, and Marcus Fulvius Flaccus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Viktor Bout ranks 72. Before him are Lisa Bonet, Gheorghe Popescu, Mino Raiola, Suman Pokhrel, Amélie Nothomb, and Jeanine Áñez. After him are Paul Giamatti, Lauren Graham, Gorō Miyazaki, Dmitry Peskov, Marcel Ciolacu, and Kennet Andersson.

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In Tajikistan

Among people born in Tajikistan, Viktor Bout ranks 10 out of 35. Before him are Nasir Khusraw (1004), Rahmon Nabiyev (1930), Abu-Mahmud Khojandi (940), Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin (800), Oqil Oqilov (1944), and Kokhir Rasulzoda (1959). After him are Qahhor Mahkamov (1932), Vladimir Voinovich (1932), Nellie Kim (1957), Gulnazar Keldi (1945), Yuri Maslyukov (1937), and Henri Weber (1944).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Tajikistan

Among extremists born in Tajikistan, Viktor Bout ranks 1. 

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