Several hundred people demonstrated outside the Turkish Embassy in Moscow today, hurling stones, bottles, eggs and tomatoes in protest after yesterday's downing by Turkey of a Russian jet in Syria, according to BBC Russian.
Photos of the demonstration and its aftermath are being shared on social media and the Russian phrase "Turkish Embassy in Moscow" is trending on Twitter in the Russian capital.
In some of the photos, banners with the slogan "Turkey - Stab In The Back" can be seen. Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that the downing of the jet was a "stab in the back" by Turkey.
The Russian phrase for "stab in the back" is now a hashtag on Twitter and is being used by Russians protesting against the downing by Turkey of a Russian Su-24 jet yesterday.
The hashtag has also been used by pro-Kremlin media outlets RIA Novosti and Life News for their tweets about the Su-24 incident.
The phrase was used by Russian President Vladimir Putin who said yesterday that the downing of the plane was a "stab in the back" by Turkey.
The downing of the Su-24 by Turkey yesterday will make a solution to the Syrian crisis even harder, but Russia is not likely to retaliate against Turkey commercially or militarily, says analyst Ali H.Soufan of the Soufan Group think tank.
[The] most unfortunate consequence will be that Russia will now roll back from its apparent willingness to consider solutions for Syria that do not depend on [Syrian President Bashar] Assad remaining in power. This is a key demand for Turkey, and in the macho world occupied by Erdogan and Putin, neither will want to appear to have blinked first...
Russia's Foreign Ministry has published details of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's phone call this morning with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu.
Lavrov "expressed outrage" at the downing of the Su-24 jet, the Foreign Ministry report says.
It was emphasized that, with the shooting down of the Russian plane that had been carrying out tasks as part of Russia's anti-terrorist campaign in Syria and which had not violated the borders of Turkish air space, the Turkish leadership had, in essence, taken the side of IS.
Judging by everything, the action was deliberate and pre-planned, and pursued a very definite purpose.
[Lavrov] noted in connection with this Turkey's participation in the illegal trade of oil with IS, which goes through the area where the plane was downed, and about the deployment there of terrorist infrastructure, weapons and ammunitions caches, control centers.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has reacted angrily to media reports that Turkish and Russian Foreign Ministry officials have agreed to a meeting.
The Ministry is saying that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has not given his agreement to proposals for a meeting from his Turkish counterpart.
TASS has published a rather scathing response to the matter from Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
We have noted the report by Reuters that cites a representative of the Turkish Foreign Ministry and talks about an alleged agreement being reached for a meeting between the foreign ministers in the coming days.
Such statements by the Turkish Foreign Ministry once again point to a lack of basic concepts of ethics and respect, and are representative in terms of veracity of everything that we are hearing from Ankara.
Zakharova said Lavrov had not agreed to "a single one of the many requests for a meeting" made during his phone call this morning with his Turkish counterpart.
"A big request to Turkish officials to stop the flow of information that does not correspond with the truth," Zakharova added.
The rescued navigator from the downed Russian Su-24 jet has said that the plane did not receive a single warning from Turkey, "either visually or via radio," RIA Novosti is reporting.
Turkey says that its pilots warned the Russian jet 10 times before shooting it down. Russia is now claiming -- via the rescued navigator -- that there were no warnings at all.
This is what the Russian navigator who was rescued after parachuting out of the downed Su-24 jet had to say to journalists about whether Turkey had issued warnings to the plane before shooting it down, according to pro-Kremlin outlet RIA Novosti.
In actual fact, there were no warnings at all. Neither over the radio traffic or visually. There was no contact at all. Therefore we went out on our combat course in the normal way. You have to understand what speed a bomber is going at and what that of an F-16 fighter is. If they had wanted to warn us, they could have shown themselves, taken a parallel course. But there was nothing like that. And the rocket hit the tail of our plane suddenly. We didn't even notice it visually, so that we could have made an anti-missile maneuver.
Moving to Tunisia, IS militants have now claimed responsibility for an attack yesterday on a presidential guard bus that killed 13 people.
The bomb exploded in one of the main streets of the capital Tunis. President Beji Caid Essebsi imposed a curfew in the city and a state of emergency nationwide. It was the third major attack in Tunisia this year.
The New York Times has some interesting insights from Turkey analysts over the reasons behind Turkey's decision to shoot down a Russian jet.
These include his frustration with Russia over a range of issues even beyond Syria, the Gordian knot of figuring out what to do with Syria itself and Turkey’s strong ethnic ties to the Turkmen villages Russia has been bombing lately in the area of the crash.
"I think Turkey was alarmed that Russia’s bombing of positions held by Turkey-backed rebels in northern Syria was hurting their positions and therefore Turkey’s future stakes in Syria," said Soner Cagaptay, a Turkish analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
TASS has more from the rescued navigator of the downed Su-24 jet who has now been named as Konstantin Murakhtin.
Murakhtin said that Turkey gave no warning to the Su-24 before shooting it down.
He also insisted that the plane had never entered Turkish air space.
"No, that's impossible, not even for a second, especially since were were flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters, the weather was clear, as we say in our slang, a million on a million. Our entire flight until the moment the rocket hit was fully under my control. I could see very well both on the map and on the ground, where the border was and where we were.
We carried out military flights there several times, we know it like the back of our hand. We carried out military missions and returned on the return route to the air base. As a navigator I know every hill. I can orientate myself even without instrumentation."