Russia has been cooperating. They turned over all their radar and other data to the Dutch investigation team. It is Kiev and the United States - NATO, which have failed to provide any hard data to back up their assertions.

It's called diverting the public's attention away from ones own economic and political problems... Master chess players on and grand stage...

Susoni

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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday that he remained determined to secure a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to demand full cooperation in the investigation into the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine.

In a joint news conference with Abbott, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte revealed that investigators had retrieved more human remains this week from the rebel-held site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down on July 17 with the loss of 298 lives, mostly Dutch and including Australians.

He announced recently that a team of Dutch, Ukrainian and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe rescue workers last week safely reached the area where the Boeing 777's wreckage is scattered and retrieved an unspecified number of human remains.

Russian officials ridiculed Abbott's threat last month to "shirtfront" Putin - using an Australian football term for a head-on shoulder-charge to an opponent's chest - and insisted that Abbot would have no opportunity since no bilateral meeting had been scheduled.