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The new monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov in Moscow

Russia puts Kalashnikov on a pedestal

Culture

Russia is celebrating the Kalashnikov rifle as “a cultural brand.” It has literally put the weapon’s inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, on a pedestal. A statue was unveiled in Moscow on Tuesday, amid much pomp and ceremony.

A bullet hole near Le Carillon restaurant, one of the attack sites in Paris.

Paris attackers’ AK-47s might be a legacy of the Balkan wars

Conflict
Kalashnikov Rifle

Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died at 94, with ‘no regrets’

Conflict & Justice