Editorial

摘要

Two subjects in particular kept us on our toes in the past two weeks. One of them, the way that relations between Ukraine and Russia developed, will be addressed by us in our next issue, ITJ 15-16/2014, which features our Eastern Europe Special. The other one was the hitherto unexplained disappearance - at least until we put this issue of the ITJ to bed on the evening of 25 March - of MH370, Malaysia Airlines' scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It was lost without (almost) any trace on 8 March. A lot has been written - and even more speculated - on the fate of this Boeing B777-200ER. We have nothing to add to all the rumours and opinions of self-styled experts concerning how a wide-body jet carrying 239 people and with four pallets and three ULDs of freight in its belly-hold can «dissolve into thin air».