Russia to Open Arms Factories in Venezuela
Another less than encouraging bit of news from Russia’s burgeoning “strategic cooperation” with Venezuela:
Russia to Start Work on Venezuela Kalashnikov Plants in October Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) — Russia will start building two plants in October to make Kalashnikov assault rifles in Venezuela, the first country to win a production license for the guns since the fall of the Soviet Union. Production of the AK-103 in Venezuela is scheduled to begin “by the end of 2009 or the start of 2010,” said Vladimir Grodetsky, head of state-run arms maker Izhmash. One plant will produce AK-103 assault rifles and the other will produce .762 caliber bullets, Grodetsky said in an interview today in Izhevsk, the central Russian city where Izhmash is based.
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