No Mistrals For Putin

En raison de la crise ukrainienne, la France a refusé de livrer deux Mistral, initialement commandés par Poutine, à la Russie. Un arrangement a été trouvé entre les deux pays . Mais selon le "Canard Enchaîné", la facture serait très salée pour la France . Vraiment ? Dimitri Halby, co- fondateur de "No Mistrals For Putin", démonte les calculs du palmipède. Article de Dimitri Halby paru dans L'Obs. Les 2 Mistrals initialement commandés par la Russie, toujours à quai en France, à Saint Nazaire (SALOM-GOMIS/SIPA) La semaine dernière paraissait un article dans le "Canard Enchaîné" concernant  "le vrai coût de l’annulation du contrat Mistral". Comme la plupart des articles concernant le contrat sur les BPC (Bateau de Projection et de Commandement) de type Mistral ces derniers mois, l’AFP et plusieurs médias ont repris, en grande partie sans vérifier ni remettre en cause, l’article d’origine. Analyse détaillée. 1- Des contrats envolés… mai...

Link to this article in  English C'était lors du 1er juin 2014. Des organisateurs dans différents endroits du Monde se sont coordonnés pour tenir la première manifestation internationale contre le contrat Mistral devant les ambassades et consulats français.

Lien vers cet article en  français It was on the 1st of June 2014. Organisers around the world coordinated to hold the first international protest against the Mistral deal in front of consulates and French embassies.

Dans un article recent (19/05/2015), Sputnik News , organe officiel de propagande du Kremlin donne la parole a Gauthier Bouchet, conseiller municipal FN à Saint-Nazaire. Petit florilège et démontage des fausses informations: Sputnik : "la solution la plus probable à ce stade est de saborder les navires en mer, ce qui coûterait à l'Hexagone quelque 20 millions d'euros. " FAUX: Couler des navires, c'est tout simplement illégal.  Cette action est interdite par la convention de Londres ratifiée par la France et... par la Russie.  De plus, les 20 millions d'euros évoqués étaient pour le démantèlement et recyclage des navires, option qui ne peut être envisagée que si la Russie interdit la revente des navires a un autre pays. On voit bien une parfaite méconnaissance du dossier. Sputnik: " « Ils sentent bien que si les Mistral qui ont été construits, qui ont nécessité des millions d'heures de construction, ne sont pas livrés, ça a à la fois des co...

Submitted by  admin  on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 02:08 Lately, rumours about the Mistral spread as the speed of light without considering facts and verified numbers. Let's get a few things straight: 1) France offers France offers to refund € 784,6 million while Russia wants € 1,163 Bln to terminate the contract. 2) Price of maintenance of the Mistral is not € 5 millions per month but € 0,4 million/month. Tags:  Mistral ,  Russia ,  No Mistrals for Putin ,  cancel , Dimitri Halby

On Wednesday the 22 th of April, "No Mistrals for Putin" French activists met with the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko , in Paris. They gave him a booklet with selfies presenting individual protests from all over the World. Dimitri Halby, Bernard Grua (showing cover of the booklet), Liza Dimitrieva, Oksana Halby  Photo courtesy of Linaupe Carter -  Taras Shevchenko's square, Paris, 22/04/2025 See also:   The two girls   &  Looking for the fourth one  This was the continuation of the international movement launched more than one year ago, with group protests hold in tens of major world cities, with a permanent collection of information about this deal being under a strong black out, with regular arguments, opposed to the Kremlin's propaganda flood, with numerous interviews with TV, radio, newspapers from different countries, with high level contacts to look for other buyers.  It was a long way. Remember, how the case was desper...

Today's order of 36 Rafale aircraft to France from India, proved once more the fails of russian propaganda.  A few month ago, in order to convince french people and the world that France had all interests in delivering the Mistral to Russia, russian media propaganda spent a lot of energy in spreading fear and lies in case of non delivery. Comparison between russian lies and nowadays reality: Russian propaganda: 1)  France would not be seen as reliable  -> India would cancel its order of Rafale aircrafts (126 aircrafts for a record deal of 24 billion euros). Even better, Sputnik news announced less than one month ago that India officially declared that the Rafale deal was cancelled because of the Mistral deal. 2) STX (builder of the war ships) would lose a huge amount of money. 3) STX would lose contracts. 4) The result would be huge unemployment for STX and St Nazaire shipyards., 2500 jobs at stake. Vs reality: 1) Indian prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Ouest France  posted pictures of the Russian  sailors going back to the Smolnyi with all their belongings. The departure would be for tomorrow Thursday 18th of December around 2pm French time, during the high tide. The sailors are doing a last shopping spree before final departure. The Mistral "Vladivostok", parked for now at the exit of the Louis Joubert dock should move and be located where the Smolnyi is since its arrival on the 6th of June. The information is classified and the French Defence Ministry turns down vehemently any requests to comment on it. According to the French newspaper "Ouest France" , the 400 russian sailors that have been training on the Mistral for the last six month in St Nazaire will leave France before the end of the year. This is a definitive departure and the sailors should be able to spend Christmas with their family. Christmas is celebrated on the 7th of January in Russia according to the Christian Orthodox tradition. They wi...

According to  Russia’s Gazeta.ru news website , dozens of Russian marines, together with officers and sailors from the country’s Pacific and Baltic Fleets, currently remain on board the warship, the website says, quoting a representative of the General Staff without disclosing his name. Russian Militaries on the deck of Mistral-class vessel Vladivostok The marines arrived at the “Vladivostok” warship back in September and were supposed to depart for Russia right after the delivery of the vessel. One of the Russians on board the Mistral-class carrier declared “We are fine; we lack neither food nor money. However, it looks like we are going to celebrate New Year here, although nobody knows for sure,”  but refused to discuss if there is any weaponry on board and whether they are allowed to use it if the situation gets worse. Former Russian naval commander Vladimir Masorin said the infantry came on board to protect it from attacks during the transitional period. ...

Russia Beyond the Headline reached 10,162 million readers around the world through its supplements in newspapers' hard copies in 2013. Everybody knows Russia Today is Kremlin's voice while most people ignore they are reading russian propaganda in supplements in the most famous newspapers' hard copies or that the newly created Sputnik news agency is to become the most influent propaganda machine. Researching everyday about the Mistral deal, we have come to know better the Russian propaganda news machine as we have to read it everyday to get its disinformation to better fight it. Here are the few things we learned and that are not often covered by the media: Russia Beyond the Headlines The most famous newspapers around the world regularly publish a supplement, Russia Beyond the Headlines (RBTH) directly financed by the Kremlin and designed to spread the russian vision of the world: The Washington Post (United States), The New York Times (United States), The Wall ...

While Russian media claim that postponing the delivery of the Mistral is putting 2500 jobs at stake, only 300 to 400 people are still working on the second Mistral which is finished at more than 60%. Thanks to new huge American orders for civil ships, St nazaire has no concerns about employment. In addition to that, nobody is asking to halt building it as even oponents to the deal are campaigning to finish building the Mistral and sell both war ships to a country that respects international laws. Russia broke the Budapest Memorandum signed in 1994 earlier this year when it annexed Crimea  [1] . RT twists information given by French newspapers While the French newspaper Le Figaro (that publishes once a week a free supplement financed by the Kremlin  [2] ) used a  misleading title in an article , it was at least offering the almost correct information that "hundreds of people are still working on building the second Mistral". The Russia Today version  v...

"No Mistrals for Putin" article "Financial Consequences Of The Mistral Deal For France: Better Cancel It!" written by Dimitri Halby has been presented on "Ukinform", the Ukrainan media agency: " Франция только выиграет от отмены "мистрального" контракта - эксперт " Франция выиграет, отменив российский контракт относительно «Мистралей», поскольку стоимость новых контрактов превысит объемы штрафных выплат. Об этом заявил международный эксперт, один из организаторов проекта «Нет «Мистралям» для Путина» Димитрий Альби, передает собственный корреспондент Укринформа. «Отмена контракта относительно «Мистралей» не будет иметь никакого влияния на Индию, которая намерена заключить контракт на приобретение 126 французских истребителей Rafale стоимостью 12 млрд евро, и откроет дверь для Франции принять участие и выиграть тендеры в Польше и Австралии еще на 29 млрд евро», - отметил специалист. По его мнению, Франция будет вынуждена...

Canceling the Mistral deal will have no influence over India buying 126 Rafale aircrafts from France for 12 billion euros and would open doors for 29 billion euros tenders in Poland and Australia. On the other hand, France would have to refund 700 to 800 million euros already paid by Russia and pay a penalty of 251 million euros in case of non delivery. Do the maths... The last financial argument against cancelling the Mistral deal is out! For months now, Russian medias and its French supporter the far right party Front National (who recently received a loan from Russian banks ammounting to 9 million euros) have been spreading fear that India might/would reconsider buying 126 Rafale multirole fighter aircraft as France would appear as an unreliable partner. The main goal of this was of course to try to influence French people and have them on the side of the delivery. India: +12 billion euros The last declarations from Indian Defense spokesman Sitanshu Kar are showing that...

Good news, the russian identification MMSI (273549920) for the Mistral Vladivostok has completely been disabled and doesn't officially exist anymore.  The page where we were  able to see it until today  now returns a 404 error while a  research with the vessel name "Vladivostok"  on the website marinetraffic returns only one result,  the French one! Following last Friday's act of piracy when the russian crew replaced the French MMSI by a russian one while  trying to move all their belongings to the Mistral to take officially possession of it , the Vladivostok  was considered without nationality  as she was under flags of two different countries. According to the article 92 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Ships shall sail under the flag of one State only  [...] A ship which sails under the flags of two or more States  [...]  may be assimilated to a ship without nationality Although Romain Nada...

Photo Bernard Grua, the Mistral Vladivostok in the Louis Joubert dock. The Mistral « Sevastopol » left its dry dock without ceremony last night, was floated out and is being prepared for sea trials In the, although huge, dock basin of Penhoet , she replaced the  « Vladivostok » . This one is now, Friday 21st of November 2014, in the middle of the Louis Joubert Lock (which is used for boats departing to sea).  The tracking system of the Vladivostok has been stopped yesterday, Thursday 20th of November 2014 at 3:37 pm French time.  Anybody relying on the tracking system would see the Mistral still in the basin of Penhoet.  The MMSI has been re-activated this morning at 08:53am, confirming the new position. The  "Vladivostok"  is only one door away from the sea and can sail away during the next high tide, today at 03H47pm French time or, during the night of Friday to Saturday at 04:00am. Let us remind you that on the official website of th...