The Russian government has rejected reports that notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout is involved in weapons deals with Islamist militant groups in Yemen. “We tend to classify this in the category of fakes or attempts at a verbal attack against our people’s representatives,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, following a report about Bout’s alleged activities in the US-based Wall Street Journal newspaper. The newspaper reported that Bout, who was released from US custody in a prisoner exchange in 2022, appears to have brokered the sale of small arms to the Houthi militant group, prim…