Russia will pay France $1.7 billion for two Mistral-class helicopter carriers, Anatoly Isaikin, director of Russia's Rosoboronexport state-controlled arms exporter, said on Friday.
The deal was signed in St. Petersburg in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev by Isaikin and Patrick Boissier, president and CEO of France's DCNS shipbuilder, who are contracted to build the warships.