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With the usual caveat about where Al Jazeera's sympathies might lie I still found this an illuminating background piece to recent events.
As an aside, I was surprised to see an apparent joint effort by Putin and Merkel towards repatriation of the remains of those who lost their lives in the Ukrainian airliner reported here in Japan, not sure that got much coverage in the United Kingdom.