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Russian state media have changed message on the air disaster

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MH17: EU and Russia in 'mirror image' worlds

People in the EU and in Russia are living in “mirror image” worlds in terms of perceptions of the flight MH17 disaster.

The killing, in July 2014, of 298 mostly Dutch civilians over Ukraine came back into the spotlight on Tuesday (13 October), when a Dutch inquest published its conclusions.

It said the airliner was shot down by a Russian-made Buk missile, without saying who fired it.

The inquest put victims’ relatives fi...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

Russian state media have changed message on the air disaster

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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