INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Netherlands summoned the Russian ambassador on Friday after Moscow accused a Dutch court of a politically motivated verdict in the
downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 above Ukraine.Russia's foreign ministry had on Thursday described as "scandalous" the ruling by
Russia yesterday dismissed that as a political process," the Dutch Foreign Ministry said in a statement to AFP."In doing so, Russia
discredits the Dutch constitutional state
That is absolutely unacceptable
That is why the Russian ambassador was summoned this afternoon and asked for an explanation."The trial was held in the Netherlands as the
the convicted men, Russians Igor Girkin and Sergei Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, were part of a Moscow-controlled separatist
group in eastern Ukraine.It ruled that the three had helped obtain and move the Russian-supplied missile that shot down MH17.Moscow reacted
the trial could go down in history as "one of the most scandalous in the history of legal proceedings with its extensive list of oddities,
inconsistencies and dubious arguments of the prosecution.""The course and the results of the proceedings indicate that they were based on a
political order to reinforce the version promoted by The Hague and its associates," it added.Moscow has denied all involvement in the
downing of the aircraft and has refused to extradite any of the suspects, which is proscribed by the Russian constitution.
