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KAZAN - Russia can build its own helicopter carriers to replace the French Mistral-class warships, Oleg Bochkaryov, first vice chairman of the Russian Military-Industrial Commission, told the media on May 26.

“Such helicopters are on our plans. They will be built pursuant to a slightly different ideology. We will not build Mistral replicas,” he said.