{"id":31122,"date":"2012-12-26T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T12:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=31122"},"modified":"2012-12-26T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T12:19:48","slug":"russian-legendary-rifle-designer-mikhail-kalashnikov-in-intensive-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/russian-legendary-rifle-designer-mikhail-kalashnikov-in-intensive-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian legendary rifle designer Mikhail Kalashnikov in intensive care"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Kalashnikov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31128\" title=\"Kalashnikov\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Kalashnikov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Kalashnikov.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Kalashnikov-280x174.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Kalashnikov-576x360.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Legendary rifle AK 47 designer Mikhail Kalashnikov has been hospitalised in intensive care after complaining of general weakness, his assistant says.<\/h1>\n<p>The 93-year-old father of the AK-47 has been having heart problems and feeling poorly since March, when he stopped showing up for work, his aide told the RIA Novosti news agency on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I visited him at home last week, he told me that nothing seemed to hurt, but that he simply had no strength left,&#8221; his assistant Nikolai Shklyayev was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems that this is just his age showing,&#8221; Shklyayev said.<\/p>\n<p>The assistant said Kalashnikov was sent to intensive care on Thursday after complaining of swelling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I last got in touch with (Kalashnikov&#8217;s) driver. He said that everything was fine,&#8221; Shklyayev told the Interfax news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Kalashnikov designed his iconic rifles &#8211; staples of armies across the world for the past half century &#8211; at the Izhmash factory in the central city of Izhevsk.<\/p>\n<p>Originally formed in 1807, Izhmash remains one of the main producers of Russian weapons.<\/p>\n<p>But like several other specialised industrial firms, it has been hit by dwindling post-Soviet demand and its failure to make up for this with foreign orders.<\/p>\n<p>Kalashnikov and 16 colleagues raised the alarm about the situation at Izhmash in an open letter to President Vladimir Putin last month, saying production had fallen to an all-time low and the factory needed to be saved.<\/p>\n<p>According to popular legend, Kalashnikov began designing weapons after having trouble with the rifles the Soviet Red Army was using during World War II.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary rifle AK 47 designer Mikhail Kalashnikov has been hospitalised in intensive care after complaining of general weakness, his assistant says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,14],"tags":[42196,10140,11945,42197,42191,42195,42193,17949,42194,42192],"class_list":["post-31122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-ak-47-kalashnikov","tag-ak-47","tag-kalashnikov","tag-kalashnikov-hospitalised","tag-kalashnikov-rifle","tag-legendary-rifle-ak-47","tag-legendary-rifle-designer","tag-mikhail-kalashnikov","tag-mikhail-kalashnikov-in-intensive-care","tag-russian-mikhail-kalashnikov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}