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===The Russian Black Box Acknowledgement===
===The Russian Black Box Acknowledgement===
The Yeltsin "thaw" and the window of opportunity for the U.S. saw the follwing developments:
On March 24, 1992, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov admitted on Russian television that he had ordered an all-out effort to retrieve the [[flight recorder|black boxes]] in order to ''"prevent the United States from finding them and to save the Soviet Union from a flurry of international accusations for destoying a civilian airliner"''
On March 24, 1992, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov admitted on Russian television that he had ordered an all-out effort to retrieve the [[flight recorder|black boxes]] in order to ''"prevent the United States from finding them and to save the Soviet Union from a flurry of international accusations for destoying a civilian airliner"''