Atrocities that happen on the inconvenient side of the barricades must not be swept under the rug Russia’s Investigative Committee has  announced the initiation of a criminal investigation into the killing of civilians in a small village in Kursk Region. The region on the border with Ukraine is, of course, the site of the worse than pyrrhic incursion which Kiev launched into Russian territory last August. Since initially being overrun, the territory under the control of Ukrainian forces has