Russia, Ukrainian separatists & Malaysian Flight MH717: Changing the tide of Russia’s resurgence?

Vladimir Putin’s stunning stratagem of capturing the former Russian province of Crimea (March 21, 2014) from the Ukraine, which caught the Americans and the Europeans flat-footed, led Moscow to the strategic gamble of supporting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Russia, Ukrainian separatists & Malaysian Flight MH717: Changing the tide of Russia’s resurgence?