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Days after the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, as the remains of some victims still lay strewn over Ukrainian farmland, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier tried to reach his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in a bid to calm the crisis. The response from Mr. Lavrov's office, according to several people familiar with the matter: The minister was on a rafting trip. 

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