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Igor Girkin escaped justice for downing flight MH17 but goes to jail after criticising Russia's leader.

If you shoot down a packed Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, you get praised. If you insult Putin, you're sent to prison. That's life in a hegemonic dictatorship which is Russia these days.

The last time I saw Igor Girkin was five years ago in the stairwell of a Moscow news agency. "Would you consider giving me an interview?" I asked. "No," he replied sharply and scurried away. I saw him again today. No stairwell. This time, Girkin was in a caged dock surrounded by police in the Moscow City Court. Along with other media we were allowed in to film him for just one minute before the end of his trial. A police dog kept barking. Girkin found that amusing. The verdict less so. Minutes later he was found guilty on extremism charges and sentenced to four years in a penal colony. This wasn't his first conviction. In The Hague in 2022, in absentia, Girkin was found guilty of the murder of 298 people: the passengers and crew of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. The Boeing jet had been shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014 by Russian-controlled forces in the early stages of Russia's war there. Girkin was one of three men sentenced to life imprisonment. A judgement he ignored. [ ... ] Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, ultranationalist Girkin became a prominent pro-war blogger. He became increasingly critical of the way the Russian authorities were waging the war: not hard enough, in his view. He founded a hard line nationalist movement called The Club of Angry Patriots. His problems began when he started to take that anger out on President Vladimir Putin. Public criticisms of the Russian president turned to insults. In a post last year, Girkin described Putin as "a non-entity" and "a cowardly waste of space". A few days later he was arrested. Now he's been tried and convicted.

Four years is a rather light sentence for dissent in Putin's Russia. Journalists Vladimir Kara-Murza was recently sentenced to 25 years and Ruslan Ushakov is serving 8 years – just to name two.

Australia and the Netherlands, the countries with most fatalities in the tragedy, quickly called for Russia to assume responsiblity for the

The UN aviation agency has blamed Russia for the downing of a Malaysian jetliner over Ukraine in 2014, leading to the deaths of 298 people. Australia and the Netherlands, the countries with most fatalities in the tragedy, quickly called for Russia to assume responsiblity for the downing and pay damages. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), based in Montreal, said claims brought by Australia and the Netherlands over the shooting down of Flight MH17 on 17 July of that year were “well founded in fact and in law.” “The Russian Federation failed to uphold its obligations under international air law in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17,” the agency said in a statement issued Monday evening. The ICAO said this was the first time in its history that its council has made a determination on the merits of a dispute between member states. On 17 July, 2014 the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 – en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur – was hit by a Russian-made BUK surface to air missile over eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where pro-Russian separatist rebels were battling Ukrainian forces. Dutch nationals accounted for two-thirds of the dead, along with 38 Australians and about 30 Malaysians, with many victims having dual nationalities.

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Seit Juli 2014 lebt Mark Bartalmai in Donezk – genau in der Region der Ukraine, wo ein blutiger Bürgerkrieg tobt. Für westliche Medien

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Agony – Der verschwiegene Krieg

Westliche Medienkonsumenten bekommen ein Bild gezeichnet, was im Osten der Ukraine passiert sein soll. Doch stimmt dieses Bild? Mark Bartalmai wollte es für sich wissen und reiste mit seiner Kamera direkt an die Kriegsfront.

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Judges at the top UN court on Wednesday (31 January) found that Russia violated elements of a UN anti-terrorism treaty, but declined to rule

Judges at the top UN court on Wednesday (31 January) found that Russia violated elements of a UN anti-terrorism treaty, but declined to rule on allegations brought by Kyiv that Moscow was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. In the same ruling, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Russia had breached an anti-discrimination treaty by failing to support Ukrainian language education in Crimea after its 2014 annexation of the peninsula. The decisions were a legal setback for Kyiv. The court rejected Ukraine’s requests to order reparations for both violations and only ordered Russia to comply with the treaties. Ukraine’s representative Anton Korynevych stressed the judgment was important for Kyiv because it did establish Russia violated international law. “This is the first time that officially, legally Russia is called a violator of international law,” he told journalists after the ruling.

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Long-awaited Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Verdict To Be Out Soon

As tensions rise over Russia’s invasion eight years later, a Dutch court will announce its decision on Thursday, November 17, in the case of four men accused of shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014. The suspects, Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov, and Leonid Kharchenko, who are all Russians, will not be present in court because they have declined to…

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The extensive criminal trial about the downing of flight MH17 will continue from Monday. The lawyers representing Olgeg Pulatov will now hav

The extensive criminal trial about the downing of flight MH17 will continue from Monday. The lawyers representing Olgeg Pulatov will now have a turn to explain their side of the case. Pulatov and three co-defendants could face life imprisonment. The Russian man denies involvement in the plane crash on 17 July 2014. The other three suspects have not responded to calls from the court and have not appointed lawyers to represent them.

All 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines plane, including many Dutch people, died in the MH17 disaster. It is not known precisely why the plane, en route from Schiphol to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, was shot down. The authorities believe that pro-Russian separatists did not realize it was a passenger flight when they shot it down. There was also an armed conflict going on in eastern Ukraine at that time.

Life in prison? They'll have to be extradited first and that's as likely as Putin before the ICC. They can never leave Russia though.

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At the time of the MH17 disaster in 2014, Russia had de facto control of the area in eastern Ukraine where the plane was shot down. That is

At the time of the MH17 disaster in 2014, Russia had de facto control of the area in eastern Ukraine where the plane was shot down. That is why the European Court of Human Rights must hear the case brought by the Netherlands against Russia. The Netherlands argued this during the hearing about the case at the court in Strasbourg.

In addition, according to the Netherlands, based on the collected evidence, no other conclusion can be drawn than that the firing installation of the Bukraket that shot down MH17 was operated by Russian specialists.

Babette Koopman spoke for the Netherlands as a Dutch representative at the court. She went on to say that the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine could only control the area in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic with Russia’s help. “Without Russia, there would be no Donetsk People’s Republic,” Koopman said. So the area was in fact under the control of Russia.

Russia will ignore any ruling from the ECHR despite having ratified the European Convention on Human Right only in 1998. Putin started visibly (to the western public) influencing policy from 1999 onwards. The first ruling against it came in 2002. In 2015 the Duma voted for legislation that allowed it to overrule any ECHR judgement much as the Tories want to do in the UK. Russia remains the country with the most applications lodged against it and the most rulings against it. It's surprising that Russia has not yet withdrawn from the Convention as it was reportedly going to do in 2018.

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