Joshua Rubenstein

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Putin continued to escalate tensions [between Russia and Ukraine] until the separatists that he encouraged and armed inadvertently broadened the conflict from a regional dispute between two former Soviet republics into a tragic incident of international proportions.

MH17 Crash Victims’ Remains Reach Ukraine-Held City

Whoever downed MH17, whether they thought they were attacking a Ukrainian transport plane or a military jet, committed a war crime.

Russia, And The Downing Of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Joshua Rubenstein: "There is an emerging consensus that pro-Russia separatists, armed by Vladimir Putin, brought down the plane." Pictured: Flowers lay on a piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove in eastern Ukraine, Monday, July 21, 2014. International investigators still have had only limited access to the crash site, hindered by pro-Russia fighters who control the territory in eastern Ukraine. (Dmitry Lovetsky/AP)

0723_MH17-wreckage-COG

Opinion

Politics

policy

Security

Initially, the soldiers did not understand what they were finding...The brick buildings, the smokestacks, the barracks -- they all signified some kind of factory or industrial plant.

What They Saw: The Liberation Of Majdanek 70 Years Ago Today

Joshua Rubenstein: "Initially, the soldiers did not understand what they were finding." Pictured, Watch towers and the barbed wire fence of the former Nazi death camp Majdanek outside the city of Lublin in eastern Poland on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)