Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, December 4th MOSCOW, December 4. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin sets off for a state visit to India, and the European Commission proposes two solutions to use frozen Russian funds. Meanwhile, the EU is mulling the Military Schengen project. These stories topped Thursday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.   Izvestia: Putin to begin India state-visit Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay his first state visit to India in four years