- 17:25 05/02/2013 Originally posted at 16:29.
Russia does not produce the type of fuel necessary for the French-made Mistral-class amphibious assault vessels it has ordered, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday.
- 14:01 01/02/2013
The Commander of the Russian Navy, Admiral Viktor Chirkov, will attend an official keel laying ceremony on Friday for the first Mistral-class amphibious assault ship being built at a French shipyard for Russia.
- 17:22 24/12/2012
Russia will decide on whether to build two Mistral class ships only after evaluating their performance, role and status as part of the Russian Navy, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday.
- 17:18 21/12/2012
Russia is putting back the launch of a project to build two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships under French license from 2013 to 2016, a Defense Ministry source said on Friday.
- 12:22 21/12/2012
Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Friday the contract to build two Mistral class amphibious assault ships remains ‘in force,’ dismissing media reports that the country’s Defense Ministry has dropped the construction plans.
- 08:46 21/12/2012
The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to abandon plans for construction of two Mistral class amphibious assault ships under the French license in Russia, business daily Vedomosti said on Friday citing a government source.
- 06:02 19/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti)
Each of the two Mistral class amphibious assault ships being built in France for the Russian Navy will have air wings consisting of 30 Ka-52K and Ka-29 helicopters, Izvestia newspaper reported on Wednesday.
- 15:03 29/08/2012 PARIS, August 29 (RIA Novosti)
France will not use a $1.2 billion contract to build Mistral class amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy to put pressure on Moscow over the Syrian issue, the country’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
- 14:33 01/08/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, August 1 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Baltic Shipyard has started metal cutting for the hull of the first Mistral class amphibious assault ship being built in France for the Russian Navy, the United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Wednesday.
- 20:04 16/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 16 (RIA Novosti)
The Mistral class amphibious assault ships built in France for the Russian Navy will be equipped with Russian-made weaponry, Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said on Thursday.
- 19:23 01/02/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, February 1 (RIA Novosti)
The first Mistral class amphibious assault ship will be put in service with the Russian Navy in 36 months, Russian Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said on Wednesday.
- 18:15 24/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
The first Mistral class amphibious assault ship for Russia will be laid down at the start of February in a French shipyard, a military industry official told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
- 20:39 02/12/2011 ST. PETERSBURG, December 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russian defense officials previously said Russia would account for 80% of labor inputs in building the third and fourth warships.
- 20:38 30/11/2011 PARIS, November 30 (RIA Novosti)
French shipbuilder DCNS has received advance payment from Moscow under a $1.2-billion contract and will start the construction of the first warship for the Russian Navy, the DCNS press service said on Wednesday.
- 17:24 07/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will sign a contract with France for the third and fourth Mistral-class amphibious assault ships before the end of this year, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday.
- 18:43 18/07/2011
The Ka-52 Alligator was initially developed as a ground-based attack helicopter for coordinating and supporting ground, rather than naval, operations. The helicopter can destroy armored and conventional equipment, enemy personnel and air targets.
- 19:54 01/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 1 (RIA Novosti)
Some 70 Russian military specialists will learn the operation and maintenance of Mistral-class helicopter carriers in France, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Friday.
- 16:00 22/06/2011 RIGA, June 22 (RIA Novosti)
Latvia will ask NATO for support if Russia deploys French-built Mistral warships in the Baltic Sea because it would change the balance of forces in the region, Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said on Wednesday.
- 23:46 20/06/2011 Alina Chernoivanova, RIA Novosti commentator
"We've bought it," Russia's military top brass must have given a sigh of relief after nearly two years of negotiation.
- 16:42 20/06/2011 LE BOURGET (France), June 20 (RIA Novosti)
France has transferred to Russia all the technology it asked for under a $1.7-billion deal for two French-built Mistral class amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy, a Russian arms exporter said on Monday.
- 03:20 18/06/2011 WASHINGTON, June 18 (RIA Novosti)
A purchase of French-built Mistral class amphibious assault ships by Russia poses a threat to U.S. security and is aimed against Washington's allies, the chairwoman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee has said.
- 19:27 17/06/2011 ST. PETERSBURG, June 17 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and France signed on Friday a $1.7 billion (1.2 bln euro) contract on two French-built Mistral class amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy.
- 17:38 17/06/2011 ST. PETERSBURG, June 17 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will pay France $1.7 billion for two Mistral-class helicopter carriers, Anatoly Isaikin, director of Russia's Rosoboronexport state-controlled arms exporter, said on Friday.
- 17:19 17/06/2011 ST. PETERSBURG, June 17 (RIA Novosti)
Russia signed a deal with France on Friday for the purchase of two Mistral-class helicopter carriers.
- 13:26 14/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 14 (RIA Novosti)
The governments of Russia and France have signed a protocol of intent on the purchase of Mistral class helicopter carriers, but not a final contract, a source close to the talks said on Tuesday.
- 22:02 26/05/2011
France and Russia should sign a contract on four Mistral class helicopter carriers for Russia before June 21, when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to visit France, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday.
- 14:41 26/05/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, agreed on Thursday that a contract on the purchase of four Mistral class helicopter carriers for Russia will be signed in 15 days.
- 14:25 06/05/2011
Talks between Russia and France on the purchase of Mistral class helicopter carriers have come to a dead end over Russia's demands on the transfer and licensed production of sensitive electronics, a Russian defense industry source said on Friday.
- 12:32 03/05/2011
The Russian Defense Ministry will appoint a new team of negotiators to a possible $1.5 billion deal to buy Mistral-class helicopter carriers from France, a ministry source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
- 16:59 19/04/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has sacked the senior Navy official who was in charge of talks with France over the purchase of Mistral-class warships.
- 16:44 13/04/2011
France and Russia have agreed that the Mistral-class helicopter carriers France will build for Russia will be fully equipped with the communication and control systems, a senior official in Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
- 19:15 16/03/2011
The agreement to sell advanced warships to Russia is losing support in France because of Moscow's wish to get hold of sensitive military technology and concerns among Russia's neighbors, Le Figaro daily said on Wednesday.
- 17:15 16/03/2011
A contract with France on the construction of modern warships for Russia will be signed when it is ready, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday.
- 04:18 16/03/2011
A Russian-French contract on the construction of Mistral class helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy is unlikely to be signed in the near future, a Russian deputy defense minister said.
- 18:27 03/03/2011
Reports of an impasse in contractual talks between Russia and France on the purchase of Mistral class helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy are false, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Thursday.
- 13:50 03/03/2011
Russia estimates a contract with France on the construction of four Mistral class helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy to be worth at least 1.5 billion euros, First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said.
- 20:28 10/02/2011
Russia has decided to buy Mistral ships from France because it would have taken at least 10 years to develop a similar domestic model, Chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov said Thursday.
- 15:38 09/02/2011
Two Mistral class amphibious assault ships will be built in Russia in addition to the first two vessels purchased in France, a high-ranking source in the Russian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti Wednesday.
- 18:05 08/02/2011
Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation dismissed on Tuesday media reports that it had left talks with France on the purchase of four Mistral class amphibious assault ships.
- 06:40 08/02/2011
Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) has been taken out of the contractual talks with France on the purchase of Mistral class amphibious assault ships.
- 16:06 04/02/2011
In April, Russia’s state-owned arms corporation Rosoboronexport plans to sign a contract to purchase Mistral amphibious assault ships from the French shipbuilder DCNS, the Defense Ministry announced on Thursday.
- 16:39 25/01/2011
Moscow and Paris on Tuesday signed an agreement to jointly build Mistral-class helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy.
- 15:18 25/01/2011
Moscow and Paris on Tuesday signed an agreement to jointly build Mistral-class helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy.
- 14:48 25/01/2011
Moscow and Paris on Tuesday signed an agreement to jointly build Mistral-class helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy.
- 14:28 25/01/2011
Russia and France on Tuesday signed an agreement to jointly build Mistral-class helicopter carriers for Russia.
- 14:30 24/01/2011
Georgia is concerned by France's decision to sell Mistral-class assault helicopter carriers to Russia, Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said on Monday.
- 13:01 24/01/2011
Russia and France have announced a deal to buy the French Mistral-class helicopter carrier. Is this a sign of a new path of the Russian armed forces? What does the rearmament concept look like? Chief editor of RussiaProfile.org Andrei Zolotov, Jr. talks to Alexander Golts, a prominent Russian military analyst and the deputy editor-in-chief of the news website ej.ru.
- 15:25 19/01/2011
The parliaments of North European and Baltic States should address the sale of French warships to Russia, Lithuania parliament speaker Irena Degutiene said on Wednesday.
- 12:42 12/01/2011
Russia will construct new shipyards near St. Petersburg designed specifically for the building of Mistral class amphibious assault ships under a French license, a defense industry source said Wednesday.
- 08:21 30/12/2010
Russia will pay France approximately 720 million euros for its first Mistral-class helicopter carrier for its Navy, a source close to the negotiations process told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
- 04:56 28/12/2010
Lithuanian National Defense Minister Rasa Jukneviciene said France's decision to build Mistral-class helicopter carriers jointly with Russia was 'a mistake.'
- 09:39 25/12/2010
Russia has opted for France's Mistral-class helicopter carriers for its Navy after announcing that the winner of the Russian Defense Ministry's tender for amphibious assault ships was a consortium comprised of French DCNS and Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC).
- 18:57 24/12/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy over the phone that France has won a tender to build amphibious assault ships for Russia.
- 18:22 24/12/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy over the phone that France has won a tender to build amphibious assault ships for Russia.
- 20:17 15/12/2010 RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik
The general purpose Mistral-class amphibious assault ship (LHA) has been officially declared the winner of a tender held by Russia's Defense Ministry, Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov told reporters.
- 22:42 09/12/2010
France is ready to transfer warship technology to Russia, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Thursday.
- 03:23 08/12/2010
The French government hopes to complete a deal to sell two Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia soon.
- 21:13 01/11/2010
Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) and France's shipbuilder DCNS on Monday signed an agreement to form a consortium, in a move that may bring a pending helicopter carrier deal closer to completion, the USC president said.
- 15:44 31/10/2010
Russia's Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on Sunday confirmed the ministry's plans to buy two foreign helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy and eventually produce vessels of this class on Russian soil.
- 14:48 29/10/2010
If Moscow and Paris sign a contract to build Mistral class helicopter carriers for Russia, the first warship may be built in 2013, a top manager of French STX Europe shipbuilder said on Friday.
- 13:24 29/10/2010
If Moscow and Paris sign a contract to build Mistral class helicopter carriers for Russia, the first such warship may be built in 2013, a top manager of the STX Europe shipbuilder said on Friday.
- 09:29 26/10/2010
France's shipbuilder DCNS announced on Tuesday it is ready to deliver Mistral class helicopter carriers to Russia with built-in domestic navigation technologies.
- 02:56 26/10/2010
Russia could announce a tender on the construction of two amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy at the Euronaval 2010 exhibition, which opened on Monday in Paris, the Vedomosti daily said.
- 09:58 17/09/2010
A tender for the construction and purchase of helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy will be announced in the next few weeks, a highly placed source in the military industrial complex said on Friday.
- 12:54 08/09/2010
Both Russian and foreign companies will participate in a tender for the construction of helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday.
- 19:21 03/09/2010
Russia will make a final decision on whether to buy a French Mistral-class amphibious assault ship by the end of the year, the Russian ambassador to France said on Friday.
- 15:47 20/08/2010
Paris is continuing negotiations with Moscow on the purchase of a Mistral-class warship and is not concerned about Russia's decision to call a tender for the construction of two helicopter carriers, a spokeswoman for the French presidential administration said on Friday.
- 18:43 19/08/2010
A tender on the purchase of a helicopter carrier for the Russian Navy will be announced in September, Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) said on Thursday.
- 12:29 19/08/2010
The Russian Defense Ministry will hold a tender on the purchase of a helicopter carrier, alongside ongoing negotiations with France on buying a Mistral-class ship, a Russian business daily said on Thursday.
- 16:07 14/08/2010
Mistral-class helicopter carriers, which Russia plans to buy from France, will be armed with Russian Ka-52 Alligator helicopters, Air Force Commander Colonel General Alexander Zelin told the Ekho Moskvy FM station on Saturday.
- 16:56 02/08/2010
Russia's contract to buy Mistral class helicopter carriers from France should be signed in Paris at the Euronaval 2010 defense show in October or Russia may lag behind in the ship building industry, Russian Navy commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said.
- 16:48 23/07/2010
Russia is likely to buy two and build another two Mistral class helicopter carriers, a high-ranking Russian Navy official said Friday.
- 15:18 15/07/2010
The Russian Defense Ministry has effectively dismissed the idea of buying a South Korean warship in place of a French Mistral-class amphibious assault ship, a Russian business daily reported on Thursday.
- 18:13 05/07/2010
Russia will buy French Mistral class helicopter carriers with the complete set of navigational equipment and technical documentation, but equip the ships with its own weaponry and helicopters, a defense industry source said Monday.
- 13:11 05/07/2010
The Russian Air Force will receive dozens of Ka-class helicopters if Russia buys a Mistral-class helicopter carrier from France, a deputy head of a Russian aviation production firm said on Monday.
- 22:00 21/06/2010
Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) intends to participate in the development of software for construction of Mistral-class helicopter carriers if Russia decides to purchase them, the company's vice president said on Monday.
- 17:06 16/06/2010
Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has started contract negotiations on the purchase of a French-built Mistral-class ship, the company's head said on Wednesday.
- 15:51 14/06/2010
Russia and France are strategic military partners, the French defense minister said Monday
- 13:50 10/06/2010
Russia will buy a Mistral-class helicopter carrier from France only if the technology is passed on and only with contracts for Russian companies, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told Agence France Presse and France 2 television ahead of his visit to France.
- 20:00 08/06/2010
Russia needs Mistral class amphibious assault ships to boost the combat capabilities of its Navy in the Far East and ensure protection of the disputed Kuril Islands, Russia's top military commander said on Tuesday.
- 18:43 08/06/2010
France is committed to selling a Mistral-class helicopter carrier to Russia because Russia is its European security partner, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
- 17:58 24/05/2010
Russian shipyards are ready to build Mistral class helicopter carriers whenever they receive orders from the military, industry officials said on Monday.
- 11:45 24/05/2010
Russia has reached the final stage of talks on the purchase of four French Mistral class helicopter carriers, the Russian defense minister said on Monday.
- 21:09 12/05/2010
Russian Ka-52 Alligator helicopters may be the best choice to arm Mistral helicopter carriers, which Russia plans to purchase from France, the chief of Russian helicopter holding said on Wednesday.
- 13:36 21/04/2010
Russia will sign an agreement with France on the purchase of a Mistral-class helicopter carrier by yearend, the head of the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation said on Wednesday
- 13:05 08/04/2010
Russia will have to build port facilities if it decides to purchase a French Mistral helicopter carrier for the Russian Navy, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said
- 19:32 07/04/2010
Russia and France have not yet agreed on the purchase of a French helicopter carrier for the Russian Navy, a Russian deputy defense minister said on Wednesday.
- 09:17 30/03/2010
A French anti-aircraft frigate will arrive on Tuesday to the northern Russian port of Severomorsk to participate in joint naval exercises, a Russian Navy spokesman said.
- 05:42 30/03/2010
A possible deal between Russia and France on the purchase of a Mistral-class amphibious assault ship should be thoroughly analyzed.
- 18:32 25/03/2010
The chief of the Russian General Staff said Thursday that Russia would only buy a fully-equipped Mistral-class amphibious assault ship from France.
- 16:51 10/03/2010
Plans to buy an expensive helicopter carrier from France could hinder the development of Russia's defense industry, a Russian lawmaker said on Wednesday.
- 23:44 01/03/2010
Russia and France have started "exclusive talks" on the purchase of four French Mistral-class amphibious-assault ships, President Nicolas Sarkozy said after talks with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev.
- 22:17 01/03/2010
Russia and France have started talks on the purchase of four French Mistral-class amphibious-assault ships, President Nicolas Sarkozy said after talks with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev.
- 21:04 26/02/2010
It appears that Russian-French talks on buying a Mistral-class amphibious-assault ship and building three other similar ships at Russian shipyards have now entered their final stage.
- 19:16 26/02/2010
Moscow and Paris have yet to clinch a deal on the purchase of a French warship and it will not be signed during the Russian president's visit to France on March 1-3, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday
- 13:24 26/02/2010
If Moscow buys a Mistral-class helicopter carrier from France, it will be used principally as an amphibious command ship, a Russian Defense Ministry source said on Friday.
- 12:09 18/02/2010
French naval shipbuilder DCNS said on Thursday it expected to receive a final answer from Russia soon on buying a Mistral-class helicopter carrier.
- 22:28 09/02/2010
Lithuania's defense minister said that a decision by NATO member France to sell Russia a top-of-the-range warship demonstrates that the alliance is no threat to Moscow.
- 16:45 09/02/2010
The Russian leadership is still considering whether to buy a Mistral-class amphibious assault ship from France or to build a similar ship domestically, Russia's top security official said Tuesday.
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