MH17's 298 victims mourned with a "Stairway To Heaven."
@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....
Here's more:
"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."
More of the "on again, off again" nature of the international effort to get to and secure the Malaysian airliner crash site.
From Telegraph.co.uk:
"Putin facing multi-million pound legal action over alleged role in MH17 crash"
British lawyers are preparing a class action against the Russian president through the American courts. Senior Russian military commanders and politicians close to Mr Putin are also likely to become embroiled in the legal claim.
The case would further damage relations between Mr Putin and the West, but politicians would be powerless to prevent it.
Last week, lawyers from McCue & Partners, the London law firm, flew to Ukraine for discussions about how to bring the case and where it should be filed. Victims’ families will be invited to join the action. The case will inevitably highlight the role allegedly played by Russia in stoking conflict in eastern Ukraine.