The official English-language Twitter account of the Russian government has this to say about today's annoucements of economic measures against Turkey in the wake of the downing of a Russian war plane near the Syrian border.
The Russian pilot killed after his plane was downed by Turkey near the Syrian border is to be buried in the city of Lipetsk at the pipe factory cemetery, TASS is reporting, citing Lipetsk officials.
The pilot, Oleg Peshkov, is to be buried in the central avenue of the cemetery, which is close to the center of Lipetsk.
Details of the funeral have not yet been confirmed.
Lipetsk officials are also considering whether to erect a monument to Peshkov in the city's Aviators Square, according to TASS.
Russia has cancelled its planned Year of Russian-Turkish Cooperation, which was set to start in 2016, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets has said.
Russian air strikes in Syria must clearly target only the IS group, France's foreign ministry has said in response to questions over recent raids by Moscow on ethnic Turkmen rebels in the north of the country, Reuters is reporting.
Asked about strikes since Friday on ethnic Turkmen areas near the Syrian-Turkish border, foreign ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said: "There can be no possible ambiguity on the objectives being pursued, which must only target the destruction of Daesh (IS)."
This from CNN's Jake Tapper on Salah Abdeslam, the Belgian national who is being sought by police in connection with the November 13 attacks in Paris. Abdeslam has been the subject of an international manhunt, and is now thought to have escaped to Syria.
TASS has more on the economic measures against Turkey that Russia has announced today amid soaring tensions following last week's downing of a Russian jet near the Syrian border.
Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said that sales of package tours to Turkey will cease immediately and that all charter flights will be stopped as soon as all Russian tourists have been brought home.
A European Union envoy has criticized Syria for "gaps and contradictions" in its declarations about its chemical weapons arsenal to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), AP reports.
Jacek Bylica of Luxembourg said that lack of clarity from Damascus, "make it impossible to have confidence that its chemical weapons program has been irreversibly dismantled."
The OPCW has a special team reviewing Syria's declarations amid fears that the chemical weapons could fall into the hands of the IS group or other militant groups in Syria.
The British government's official anti-IS Twitter account has tweeted that Turkey has a right to protect its air space.
Russian economic restrictions against Turkey are just a "first step" and the list of banned goods could be expanded if required, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced.
Medvedev said that the economic restrictions must be carried out in a pragmatic manner, to maximize the effect in Turkey while causing minimum damage to Russia.
The economic restrictions were a "neccessary response to the aggressive and unfriendly actions of Turkey," Medvedev was quoted as saying.
AFP's Jo Biddle tweets this on Syria's comments denying chemical weapons use at a meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the Hague today.