Russia's President Vladimir Putin is meeting his French opposite number, Francois Hollande, Thursday evening, as France seems keener than ever to bring Russia in from the cold to join its anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition force.
The meeting is going ahead as Russia and Turkey are embroiled in tit-for-tat recriminations over the downing of a Russian fighter jet by Turkish military this week and whether it occurred in Turkish or Syrian airspace. The incident has quickly become one of the most potentially alarming clashes between Russia and a NATO member for years, and is the first time a Russian plane has been shot down by a NATO member state for close to five decades.
Patrick Abboud
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