François Hollande and Vladimir Putin will talk over dinner in the Kremlin on Thursday evening as the French president continues diplomatic efforts to form a broad coalition against Islamic State after the Paris attacks.
Hollande met Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday and Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, in Paris earlier on Thursday. He met David Cameron on Monday and Angela Merkel on Wednesday.
His trip to Moscow will last just a few hours, as he is whisked to the Kremlin for one-on-one talks with Putin followed by a working dinner set to include his foreign and defence ministers.
So far the pledges have been vague, and efforts to form a broad coalition have been further complicated by the shooting down of a Russian jet by the Turkish air force on Tuesday.
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