Whats interesting about your reference is that I currently have an exchange student staying with me from Turkmenistan and as a former Soviet Republic they still

Whats interesting about your reference is that I currently have an exchange student staying with me from Turkmenistan and as a former Soviet Republic they still get the bulk of their news from Russian television. We were discussing last night (literally last night) the MH17's destruction and she had never heard of Russia's involvement with the shoot down-she believed that the Ukrainian air force had shot it down and that Russia's involvement in the Ukraine had been greeted with open arms (because Russian television had shown nothing but smiling faces on the Crimean faces). When I showed her the articles about the ethnic Russian's driving everyone out, and the clear Russian military involvement in the area, she was utterly shocked.