Russia backs banning of maps disputing official 'territorial integrity'

Russia makes punishable maps in breach of ‘new territorial realities’

Russia's government extended support to a legislative amendment that would classify maps that dispute the country's official "territorial integrity" as punishable extremist materials, the state-owned TASS news agency reported on Sunday (8 January).

Russia To Ban Accurate Maps As "Extremist Materials" - Joe.My.God.

Reuters reports: Russia’s government extended support to a legislative amendment that would classify maps that dispute the country’s official “territorial integrity” as punishable extremist materials, the state-owned TASS news agency reported on Sunday. The amendment to Russia’s anti-extremism legislation stipulates that “cartographic and other documents and images that dispute the territorial integrity of Russia” will …

Russia Backs Law Banning Accurate Maps as Extremist Material

The new rules would outlaw maps which “dispute the territorial integrity of Russia.”

Russia to label maps that dispute its ‘territorial integrity’ as extremist materials

The amendment will affect school maps that show the annexed Crimea as Ukrainian - Click the link for more details.

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Blacklisted maps. Cartography without Crimea in Russia will be punished as extremism

The maps in question were distributed in Russia and dispute that Crimea, annexed in 2014, and the Kuril Islands (disputed with Japan since World War II) are part of the federation.