Russia's War Against Ukraine

Julia Ioffe: A plane crash won’t weaken Putin’s resolve in Syria

By Julia Ioffe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the 5th World Congress of Compatriots Living Abroad in Moscow on November 5, 2015. AFP PHOTO / RIA NOVOSTI / MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV
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For days, unnamed Western intelligence officialsand Western heads of state have been implying that a bomb could very well have downed the Russian Metrojet plane carrying 224 Russians to St. Petersburg after a sunny vacation in Sharm el Sheikh.

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