For example, one Russian TV piece challenged a video clip that Ukrainian authorities said showed the Buk missile battery being rushed toward the Russian border shortly after the shootdown, saying the serial number on the truck -– 312 -– showed the missile launcher was Ukrainian army equipment.
NBC News reports Dozhd TV took note of the wave of criticism directed at Putin in a chyron denouncing “Putin hunting” by foreign leaders.
Nor has the Russian news media had a problem getting soundbites and pithy quotes from Russian politicians.
Deputy Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin, for example, said on Twitter that the U.S. has reached its conclusions about responsibility for the crash before the facts are known. He cited a bit of recent history to underscore his point: “Just like Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction!”
On the other hand, the Russian media has not paid much attention to an upwelling of sympathy from Russian citizens who have been leaving flowers and other gifts at makeshift memorials outside the Malaysian and Dutch embassies.
That might have something to do with the stinging messages scattered among the other remembrances, like this one, “Not all Russians are murderers and terrorists.”
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