No Mistrals For Putin

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...