[cm2187]

Well, God knows I am opposed to the current anti-russia madness but I stopped reading zh a few years ago when they were systematically taking Russia' side including when Russia was so obviously red handed. I think the drop for me was their defense of Russia in the MH17 crash.

[ephemeralism]

What convinced you that it was Russian forces and not Ukrainian?

[tomp]

It was pro-Russian / separatist rebels (they bragged about downing the plane on vKontakte), armed by Russia; most people thus put blame on Russia.