- Summary- Kremlin-controlled media fete release of arms dealer Bout- See swap for U.S. basketball player as triumph for Russia- Say move shows Russia's resilience in conflict with U.S.- U.S. Republicans slam Biden over Bout-for-Griner dealMOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Russian state media on Friday lauded President Vladimir Putin for "winning" a prisoner exchange with the United States by swapping U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout.Bout, in his first interview, with state-run news outlet RT, rejected the idea that Russia got the best of the exchange however, or that it had made U.S. President Joe Biden look "weak".REAL LIFE 'SPY THRILLER'Bout's life reads like a spy thriller and his notoriety was such that his life helped inspire a 2005 Hollywood film "Lord of War", starring Nicolas Cage as Yuri Orlov, an arms dealer loosely based on Bout.The montage showed historical video of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Zakharova and other senior diplomats saying "Viktor Bout".U.S. anger at Bout's release has been widely covered in the Russian media, with the pro-Kremlin tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets claiming that Department of Defense officials were "disturbed" by the exchange, citing U.S. media reports."