Left-leaning Russian publication Novaya Gazeta Russia (New Gazette Russia) made it
very clear how they felt about Russia's involvement in the MH17 disaster. The front page of today's paper boasted the bold headline: "Forgive Us, Netherlands" in Dutch, and in smaller letters underneath the same message in Russian. 
The story received a four-page spread inside the paper. On the left side of this page, the headline reads "They thought they were dolls," and the description of the photograph, "From the site of the Boeing fall." Specifically, it states "fall," rather than crash or shooting. The quote highlighted at the bottom comes from a witness to the MH17 crash, "They're telling us that there is no war. But what is this? People thought they were dolls and it was babies!" On the opposite side of the page, "Holland met the deceased in silence," with the photography description as, "Netherlands C-130 and Australian C-17 delivered from Ukraine the first forty coffins with remains of the victims of crash Malaysia Airlines." In this case, Novaya Gazeta more boldly calls it a "crash," though "shooting" still does not appear in any headlines.
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