BASE FOR ARMWRESTLERS WILL ORIGINATE IN MOSCOW! 08:21 07/17/2012 An interview with Andrej Michajłowicz Pietrow, the President of the Armsport Federation of the city of Moscow. I’ll start with a question – when did the idea of an alternative Armwrestling Federation in Moscow, as the Association created by M. M. Machmudow has already been working? Andriej Pietrow: Both Moscow and Russian Association Armwrestling was created by one man - Igor Achmiedszyn. In time, he was the one who recommended Machmudow to take the function of the President of the Moscow Association. After some time, the management of the Russian Association changed and its managed by Aleksander Filimonov. At one point we’ve noticed that the Moscow Association doesn’t develop properly, doesn’t cooperate with the Russian Association. Tournaments were nor derived in a proper way. They took place unpunctually. They were not coordinated with the calendar of the Russian Association Armwrestling. So the time to change