Russian government declares maps that contradict their claims as illegal "extremist material".

[DetlefK]

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-maps-extremist-if-they-question-territorial-integrity-crimea-2023-1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Russia's state government moved ahead with a bill on Sunday that would classify maps that question its "territorial integrity" as extremist materials.

An amendment to anti-extremism legislation would include as extremist "cartographic and other documents and images that dispute the territorial integrity of Russia," according to Reuters.

In recent years Russia's anti-extremism law has been continually expanded to assert increasing control over political opponents.

The latest amendment, first introduced in December, was added after lawmakers noted that some maps dispute what Russia calls the "territorial affiliation" of Crimea and the Kuril Islands, according to Reuters. 

Russia has claimed Crimea as Russian territory since its troops seized the land from Ukraine in 2014 — a claim rejected not only by Ukraine but by almost 100 UN member states.

I think I know what's next:
At the beginning of the Ukraine-war, there was a russian teacher who got fired for "immoral behavior"... for the crime of telling her students that Ukraine is a country.

[Walleye]

1. Maps and territories, S.I. Hayakawa's book

“Language in Thought and Action”. There’s a very good lesson in there. You have a map, you go to the territory, and it’s different from the map, you change the map not the territory. I guess it is not required reading in Russian universities