Владимир Владимирович Кадафи

The NYT broke the news: Russia Implicated in Shooting Down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Over Ukraine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/world/asia/malaysia-air-flight-mh17-russia-ukraine-missile.html

UNITED NATIONS — A Dutch-led investigation has concluded that the powerful surface-to-air missile system that was used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine two years ago, killing all 298 on board, was trucked in from Russia at the request of Russian-backed separatists and returned to Russia the same night.

The report largely confirmed the already widely documented Russian government role not only in the deployment of the missile system, called a Buk, or SA-11, but the subsequent cover up, which continues to this day.

Интересно, дойдет дело до международного ордера на арест российского руководства или нет? Например, Шойгу не мог не знать, что Бук переправляют через границу.

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Интересно, как можно было бы оценить вероятность того, что ЕСПЧ примет иск от родственников людей, погибших в малайском боинге Амстердам - Куала Лумпур?

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I'm taking a Greek Classics class this quarter: The Iliad, The Odyssey, Tragedies, Herodotus and Thucydides. When I read the Iliad it strikes me how limited, if not non-existent, the Greeks learning tools are. Basically, they can look for omens, interpret dreams, encounter gods in disguise and pray. In contrast, the gods have all the information and knowledge but they are not in a hurry to share it with the mere mortals, unless they have a some kind of special relationship going on. The lack of knowledge is literally a tragedy for everyone in the story. Only Odysseus manages to ply information out of the immortals on a consistent basis.