Murder In The Sky: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
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Adam Taylor: Why Russians think their ‘August curse’ has come early
A picture taken on July 18, 2014 shows the wreckages of the Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur a day after it crashed, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine.
On July 17 afternoon, after news spread that a Malaysia Airlines plane appeared to have been shot down over eastern Ukraine, dozens of Russian Twitter users all began to tweet essentially the same joke: This year, August had come early.
