Bulgaria intends to purchase from Russia the license for the production of Kalashnikov machine guns.
The license will be valid five years, Russian information agency ITAR-TASS reported.
Documents regulating long-term co-operation of the two countries in the field of military equipment will be ready by the beginning of May 2007. By that time Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev will visit Russia.
Military and political officials from Russia had often accused Bulgaria and other East European countries of intellectual piracy, ITAR-TASS said.
Countries in the region, which were once allies of the Soviet Union in the Warsaw Pact, keep on producing Soviet military equipment without having received license from Russia.
