Apple Music app shows occupied Crimea as a Russian territory on its map
10:15, 20 October
Image source: instagram.com/culture_ukraine
The American company Apple in the program Apple Music, which allows musicians to track the listening of tracks by country, on its map labelled Crimea as part of the Russian Federation.
The Culture Ukraine community reported it on Instagram.
"Just maps of Ukraine and Russia on the Apple Music app for artists. Who is involved in the platform in our country? What kind of disrespect is this?", - the community said in a statement.
Source: instagram.com/culture_ukraine
What is known
- On March 1, the People's Deputy of the OPZH Vadym Rabinovich published a map of Ukraine without Crimea.
- In March 2021, a European media network specializing in EU policy mapped Ukraine without Crimea.
- On December 1, 2020, the Muslim Religious Association in Poland issued a calendar, where images of Crimean mosques were signed as "The Russian Federation".
- On September 26, BBC World published a map of Ukraine with "non-Ukrainian" Crimea.
- In September 2020, the French TV channel ARTE in an infographic on the international legal situation regarding the Autonomous Republic of Crimea showed the occupied peninsula as part of the territory of the Russian Federation.
