The members of the Federation Council proposed to prohibit the demonstration of the advertisement, which depicts a map of Russia without the Crimea and Sevastopol. The corresponding bill to the state Duma on Friday, March 3, has been introduced by senators from Crimea Olga Cowicide and Sergei Tsekov made. The document is available in the electronic database of the lower house of Parliament.
Amendments will be made to the law “On advertising”. The senators believe that ads showing a map of Russia without designation of the Crimea and Sevastopol, should be regarded as “propaganda of the violation of the territorial integrity of the country.” “These changes are due to the need for legislative regulation of production and sales in retail chains of printed materials, educational materials, RF card, visual AIDS,” reads the explanatory note.
In addition, it is noted that in the promotional activities for the production and sale of alcoholic beverages used distorted topographic data. “In tourism TripAdvisor company designated Crimea as a subject of Ukraine, referring to the classification in the structures of the UN,” added the senators.
On 2 February the international human rights organization Freedom House in its report on the level of civil and political freedoms in the world published a map of Ukraine without Crimea. Infographic on the Peninsula was marked by excellent from Ukraine color as a separate territory.
In late January, typography in Kiev has released a geographical educational game for kids, on maps where the specified Crimea as Russian territory.
Crimea became part of Russia in March 2014 after a referendum in which a majority of residents entitled to vote supported the decision. In Kiev refused to recognize the results of the plebiscite. Moscow, in turn, indicates compliance with the procedures for the reunification of the Russian Federation with the Peninsula international law. Also, the Russian authorities have repeatedly stressed that the question of supplies of Crimea is closed forever.