More of the "on again, off again" nature of the international effort to get to and secure the Malaysian airliner crash site.
"We are a great, powerless country," admitted the Russian foreign minister in 1876. "We can always dress up finely but we need to know that we are dressing up."
@CatFitz for "The Interpreter" responds to Russian suggestions that allegations of separatist or Russian involvement in the MH17 downing derive merely from "social media." Here's an excerpt:
The Russian Foreign Ministry complained today that allegations about the responsibility of the Russian-backed separatists in southeastern Ukraine for the downing of MH17 is merely taken “from social media,” AP reports.
“In other words, the Washington regime is basing its contentions on anti-Russian speculation gathered from the Internet that does not correspond to reality,” said the Ministry.
We find the “social media” very compelling, as well as the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s complaints during the week before the crash, but if that doesn’t suit the Russian Foreign Ministry, they should look at their own Russian state media, as well as privately-owned pro-Kremlin media where the evidence for the separatist’s Buk shooting down the Malaysian plane is pretty damning as well....
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