The GS website, whose Mistral class page hasn’t been updated since February 2010, still claims that Russia has not decided about whether or not to buy Mistral class warships.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/mistral.htm
This information is obsolete. The Russian decision to purchase 4-5 Mistral class vessels was announced when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Paris. Russia probably made that decision earlier than that.
So GS is providing obsolete info – or lying.
