A convenient lie believed is more powerful than the truth


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About a fortnight ago, the then Ukrainian prime minister, Arseniy Yatseniuk, gave several remarkable press interviews in which he condemned the Russians for puppeteering the rebels fighting for separation from Ukraine, culminating in the rebels firing a missile that downed flight MH17.

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