Crimean Map Scandals: Choice Between Offending Russia or Ukraine

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Since Russian troops invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in March 2014, world topography has struggled to place the international border between the two countries. Research engines, academic textbooks, businesses and other world organizations have come under fire from both the Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministries depending on how they print their maps.

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    3. grimly-fiendish said: Crimea voted for Russia, therefore it belongs to Russia. Not that hard
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      As I understand it, the renaming of towns and villages based on communist place names is to take effect once the...
    5. violet-zinnias-blog said: If you “offend” the russian authorities, that means you’re doing something right…
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    9. potw said: Crimea population voted, nobody invaded.
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