MOSCOW. Feb 24 (Interfax-AVN) - Over 1,000 Russian, CIS and other companies have been invited to attend the international military hardware and ammunition exhibition Russia Expo Arms 2004, which will be held in Nizhny Tagil on July 6 - 10.
The Nizhny Tagil Metal Testing Institute that will host the exhibition has set up three databases of over 1,000 factories, in particular 691 plants in 51 Russian regions, 97 plants in four CIS member-nations, and 255 companies from 28 non-CIS countries, Viktor Kholstov, general director of the Russian Ammunition Agency who chairs the exhibition's organizing committee, told Interfax-Military News Agency.