Weapon designer Mikhail Kalashnikov getting well

Legendary weapon designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, hospitalized to the Mandryka Central Military Hospital in Moscow in June is convalescing. "All the medical procedures have been successful; there is no threat to Mikhail Kalashnikov's health," the designer's personal assistant Sergei Nosachyov said on Tuesday. "Kalashnikov has been undergoing preventive treatment and rehabilitation therapy in a separate hospital ward," Nosachyov said. He exercises daily, monitors the mass media, reads books and talks with his relatives. "I've always been a winner; this time I'm going to win again," he told his admirers through the press. Meanwhile, doctors are unable to say when the 93-year-old patient might be discharged. Kalashnikov who suffered from thromboembolia of the pulmonary artery was airlifted from Izhevsk to Moscow in the evening of June 23.