Kalashnikov Wants to Shoot Down SWIFT and Switch to 'Digital Currency'

The owner of Kalashnikov, the firm that created the AK-47 assault rifle, wants to uncouple from the SWIFT international payments network and banking sector-controlled payments and make use of "digital currencies" - presumably crypto in this case - instead. According to the news agency TASS, the gunmaker's owner, Alan Lushnikov, speaking at the St. Petersburg