![]() “Strelkov is the field commander in Slaviansk and one of the most important figures in the conflict,” Shmelev had written in an e-mail to the Internet Archive on July 1st, and his page “deserves to be recorded twice a day.” Strelkov’s VKontakte page was on Shmelev’s list. Shmelev is one of about a thousand librarians and archivists around the world who identify possible acquisitions for the Internet Archive’s subject collections, which are stored in its Wayback Machine, in San Francisco. Two weeks before the crash, Anatol Shmelev, the curator of the Russia and Eurasia collection at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford, had submitted to the Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in California, a list of Ukrainian and Russian Web sites and blogs that ought to be recorded as part of the archive’s Ukraine Conflict collection. G.M.T., Igor Girkin, a Ukrainian separatist leader also known as Strelkov, or someone acting on his behalf, posted a message on VKontakte, a Russian social-media site: “We just downed a plane, an AN-26.” (An Antonov 26 is a Soviet-built military cargo plane.) The post includes links to video of the wreckage of a plane it appears to be a Boeing 777. The plane’s last radio contact was at 1:20 P.M. All two hundred and ninety-eight people on board were killed. Not much more than three hours later, the plane, a Boeing 777, crashed in a field outside Donetsk, Ukraine. on July 17, 2014, for a twelve-hour flight to Kuala Lumpur. ![]() Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 took off from Amsterdam at 10:31 A.M. ![]() The Web wasn’t built to preserve its past the Wayback Machine aims to remedy that. ![]()
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