Russia is the second exporter of weapons in the world, and in the last few years it has been constantly breaking its own records, and it has also sold weapons to Syria, despite the fact that a civil war is raging in that country, writes Reuters.
Russia's arms industry has managed to find new customers in Southeast Asia and Africa, although it has been criticized for not supplying the same technologically advanced weapons as its Western competitors, and for the prices of those weapons, which are far from the low prices offered by China.
"Let's talk about the results, and they are positive. We achieved a record sale of weapons. We sold weapons with a total value of 14 billion dollars," Putin said.
According to him, in 2012, Russia signed new contracts for the export of weapons worth more than 15 billion dollars, but he did not say when and where the delivery of weapons under these contracts is expected.
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