The Russians know how to make news. An article by Adrew Kramer in today's New York TImes [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/europe/malaysia-airlines-flight-17-russia.html?_r=0 describes a report by researchers at the Middlebury Institute for Interneational Studies which details how the Russians modified two photographs which are supposed to be Russian satellite images of the crash site of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 which was shot down in 2014. The researchers ran these photos through software that allowed them to tell when a photo had been touched up. Kramer provides examples in the article, but there is no doubt the photos were doctored to eliminate details that the Russians did not want anyone to see. The researchers are working for someone who is trying to convince a European Union court that the Russians are trying to avoid liability for any actions that might have led to the downing of the airliner.
The problem with trying to make up a story is that so many people and physical evidence has to be modified to make a story fit together. Touching up the pictures just makes them look guilty, but the truth was not very convenient for their purposes. This is how Russia makes news. Them facts do not matter as much as the story line the Kremlin wants to convey. Just give us the facts and we can make the evidence fit that.
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