French jet in 'dangerous' incident with Russian aircraft: Moscow:
A French military jet came dangerously close to an aircraft carrying the speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament as he flew through French airspace, Russia's foreign ministry said Monday. Ref. Source 9t
Senator says France's future inconceivable without dialogue with Russia:
France cannot do without dialogue with Russia and that is why the anti-Russian sanctions should go, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the French Prime Minister from 2002 through 2005 and currently an influential senator said on Wednesday Ref. Source 6c.