Apple v. Ukraine Foreign Policy
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Posted on 11/28/2019 8:58:34 AM PST by Swordmaker
MOSCOW/KIEV, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Wednesday Apple did not "give a damn" about its pain, after the U.S. tech giant began referring to the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russia in its Maps and Weather apps for Russian users.
Russia and Ukraine have both been highly sensitive to the way global companies identify Crimea, since Russian troops seized the territory and Moscow annexed it after a referendum that Kiev and its Western allies say was illegal.
Apple appeared to have changed the way it displays locations in Crimea in its software, in a nod to Russian politicians who have demanded the peninsula be referred to as part of Russia.
Reuters reporters in Moscow who typed the name of the Crimean provincial capital Simferopol into Apple's Maps and Weather apps on Wednesday saw it displayed as "Simferopol, Crimea, Russia". Users elsewhere -- including in Ukraine's capital Kiev and in Crimea itself -- see locations in Crimea displayed without specifying which country they belong to.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Simferopol, Crimea, will never go back to Ukraine short of war...
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Never mind that Crimea has been Russian since Catherine the Great kicked out the Ottoman Turks before America was a country.
Until drunken Khrushchev re-assigned it within the defunct USSR to Ukraine in the 50s, to gain political support for his ascendancy after the death of Stalin.
(Like trading Long Island to Connecticut, then NY taking it back)
Thanks for the heads up. . .
Exactly......
Exactly......
Access to the Black Sea has been central to Russian identity and foreign policy for the last 400+ years. Anyone claiming it should belong Ukraine is desperate warmonger.
My pleasure.
Ukraine is weak.
It only became part of Ukraine because Khrushchev was trying to win them over.
Apple recognizes reality.
See this and other news at the top of the hour.
I understand that history.....he really was a fool.
I understand that history.....he really was a fool.
IIRC, when Ukraine published its constitution, Crimea was not included. The next day it was included.
Poroshenko was/is a hater of everything Russian.
... and I think russia filled it with Russian immigrants.
Apple: Crimea a river.
When? And who do you think lived there before?
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