Mikhail Kalashnikov, who has died aged 94 in Izhevsk, will forever be associated with one of the world's most iconic -- and controversial -- weapons. When his AK-47, or "Kalashnikov," assault rifle ...

AK-47 designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, dead at 94 00:57 MOSCOW --In a regretful letter penned a few months before his death, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, asked the head ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 rifle who died last month at the age of 94, wrote a letter in 2012 to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church expressing "spiritual pain" over the deaths ...

The creator of one of the world’s most famous guns, the AK-47 assault rifle, launched another weapon in Britain on Monday — Kalashnikov vodka. Lt. Gen. Mikhail Kalashnikov, who invented the AK-47 ...