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People demonstrate on September 7, 2014 at the STX dockyards in front of a Russian Smolny-class training ship with 400 sailors to undergo training, against the delivery to Russia of the controversial French-built "Mistral-class" helicopter gunship "Vladivostok" in the western French port of Saint-Nazaire . French President Francois Hollande announced on September 3 that the time was not right to deliver the high-end warship to Russia given the situation in Ukraine. Paris agreed in 2011 to build and sell the two advanced helicopter assault ships to Russia for a total of 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion), with the first scheduled for delivery in October or November and the second in 2015. Russia has named the first ship "Vladivostok" and the second "Sevastopol", after the port in Crimea that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in March. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD (Photo credit should read JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP via Getty Images)
People demonstrate on September 7, 2014 at the STX dockyards in front of a Russian Smolny-class training ship with 400 sailors to undergo training, against the delivery to Russia of the controversial French-built "Mistral-class" helicopter gunship "Vladivostok" in the western French port of Saint-Nazaire . French President Francois Hollande announced on September 3 that the time was not right to deliver the high-end warship to Russia given the situation in Ukraine. Paris agreed in 2011 to build and sell the two advanced helicopter assault ships to Russia for a total of 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion), with the first scheduled for delivery in October or November and the second in 2015. Russia has named the first ship "Vladivostok" and the second "Sevastopol", after the port in Crimea that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in March. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD (Photo credit should read JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP via Getty Images)
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