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Le Figaro — Oct. 12, 2016
“Paris-Moscow: the big chill” writes French daily Le Figaro on its front page Wednesday a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin postponed his planned visit to Paris next week, amid rising tensions between Russia and France over the Syrian conflict.
Tensions between French President François Hollande and Putin have reached new heights since the French president’s suggested last weekend that Russia could be guilty of war crimes in Syria. Meanwhile, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution to end air strikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo.
This morning, Russian senators ratified a Russia-Syria agreement for the “indefinite deployment” of Russia’s air task force in Syria, news agency Tass reports. One Russian official said the move was “the first but far from the last step” towards consolidating the country’s positions “not only in Syria and in the Middle East, but also in the whole world.”