Mediagazer: The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (Julia Ioffe/The New Republic)

11:35 AM ET, July 22, 2014

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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:

The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — And it's more of a problem than you think. — Did you know Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason …

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