More than a hundred
Russian schoolchildren were taught to assemble AK-47s in a
Moscow park on Saturday as the country this weekend celebrates the centenary of the birth of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the legendary rifle.
On Saturday, dozens of boys and girls, some clad in camouflage fatigues, took part in a competition that saw them play paintball and assemble mock-up Kalashnikov rifles in a park in southern Moscow.
"At least 100 people took apart the Kalashnikovs today," Andrei Starykh, a director at the youth organisation that organised the competition, Gvardia, proudly told AFP.