Russia will purchuase the military ship Mistral, the French edition of La Trbune informs.
The ship will be purchuased by Russia - wining country in the tender, for 2 mn EUR.
The deciding point in the decision for purchuase by Russia of that ship was a visit of Frech Prime Minister Fransua Fione to Russia. He shared Putin's considerations about the buying of the military armament. This for Russian Federation is a first large purchuase in the military sphere.
We remaind you that Russia wished to buy this universal French ship a long time before. According to Vladimir Voskov, head of the Rusisa's marine forces in case if Russia had had the Mistral class ship it will be able to carry out more successful military operation in the Black sea during the August war.
He noted that thanks to this ship the Rusisan forces would spend only 40 minutes for the operation instead of 26 hours. To be noted that the ship is as well the hellycopter carrier. The question of purchuasing by Russia of such ship till now is the question of disputes among politicians and political scientists.