Russia sign arms deal with Libya

Libya has signed an arms deal with Russia worth 1.3 billion Euros ($1.8 billion), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying during a meeting with Vladimir Gorodetsky, Director general of the Izhevsk Machinery Plant.Only yesterday we signed a contract worth 1.3 billion euros, Putin said, And it's not only small arms, he added, without specifying which weapons Libya intended to purchase. In fact the contract is very important for us because many of our spheres are connected with it, answered Vladimir Gorodetsky. Izhevsk Machinery Plant is famous for its production of small arms, the Kalashnikov assault rifle among them.