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Iran Admits to Plane Shootdown. Putin Still Won't.
Countries that down airliners usually take responsibility. Not Russia.
Honoring the dead in Ottawa.
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Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia’s overseas propaganda channel, RT, had a telling reaction to Iran’s admission that its Revolutionary Guards Corps had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian civilian airliner last week.
“There are two schools of thought on how a big country that demands respect should behave if it messes up catastrophically,” Simonyan wrote in a Twitter thread. She went on: