The Russian government is concerned with the problem of pirated Russian arms made in other countries, including the new East European members of the WTO and EU. It turns out that this matter is of a concern not only for analysts and observers. For the first time this problem was publicly mentioned on the highest political level. At the meeting of the Committee on Export Control held recently in Moscow Russian First Vice-Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov put it flatly that western countries, forbidding the sales of the Russian arms in their markets, are openly copying Russian developments on profit on this.
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Russia has been repeatedly trying to draw attention of its partners to this problem. Hopefully the government seriously decided to solve the problem. "In fact we openly spoke about this earlier, this is not a piece of news, - Sergey Ivanov said, - a number of East-European countries continue intellectual piracy and illegally use, first of all Soviet licenses, despite of the numerous offers of the Russian Federation to settle this point. From some countries we have not received any more or less reasonable reaction so far".
At the exhibitions of arms Russian designers continuously observe surprisingly familiar samples of arms with absolutely unfamiliar names. For example, Poland makes air defense rocket complex ZU-23 2KG. It is a direct analogy of the Russian domestic complex. One year ago Poland delivered 48 tanks PT-91 "Tvyardy" worth $ 348 million to Malaysia. De facto this is a modified Russian tank T-72. Poland is not ashamed to offer in the international markets portable antiaircraft-rocket complex OSA, i.e. a pirated version of the Russian PZRK "Igla".
Romania recently was about to sell a “newly developed” armored personnel carrier to a Middle East nation. The deal failed because the Romanian design was ridiculously close to the Russian BTR-80. Fake Kalashnikov machine guns break all possible record of piracy. Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Serbian Kalashnikovs cost around the world approximately 50 dollars per one, which is much cheaper than the prices of the Izhevsk plant.
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