(CNN) -- Did you have a Franz Ferdinand moment when you first heard about Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashing in eastern Ukraine? I am talking about the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination 100 years ago sparked World War I. The reaction from some politicians and hacks suggested they were having such a moment, after the MH17 crash -- hinting that the world would never be the same. The Malaysian Boeing 777, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in the Donetsk region of war torn eastern Ukraine, in an area controlled by anti-government forces, known as "pro-Russian separatists" in the West.
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Russia is in the dock over MH17, despite few confirmed facts, says Alexander Nekrassov
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Nekrassov says Ukraine has blamed Moscow for the crash, accusing it of arming rebels
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But he says it would be tough for Kiev to argue how a "rag tag army" could bring down a plane
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The tragedy will hopefully focus international attention on ending the Ukraine bloodshed, he says
The one thing that will most definitely change after the downing of flight @placeholder is that the civil war raging in Ukraine that had somehow been forgotten by the outside world will now -- with the death of nearly 300 foreign citizens -- get an international dimension.