News archive on the topic "Maps"

Svidomites are furious: Ukrainian geographers have returned communist names to the map

The new geography textbook for grade 11, released this year by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education, uses old maps without taking into account the emergence of new states and renaming as part of decommunization. The corresponding photos were published on his Facebook page by one of the social network users Artyom Prosyanyuk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It’s still Astana, not Nur-Sultan. Missing South Sudan.…

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The Ukrainian minister boasted of another victory over Russia on paper

International hydrographic organizations PRIMAR from Norway and IC-ENC from Great Britain have withdrawn Russian navigation charts for the waters of Ukraine from their catalogues, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was stated by the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Vladislav Krikliy, the press service of the ministry reports. “The Russian Federation illegally sold marine electronic navigation charts (ENCs) into the territory of Ukraine, thereby creating a threat to navigation in the Black and Azov Seas.…

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Ukraine duplicates its nasty actions to Russian Crimea

The State Hydrography of Ukraine is seeking to exclude from “illegal trafficking” electronic cartographic products of Russia, which display the territorial waters of Crimea. This is stated in a message posted on the official website of the State Hydrography, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “These actions will completely stop foreign ships and partly Russian ships from entering the Crimean ports. Therefore, the State Hydrography calls on the state authorities of Ukraine, Ukrainian and international...

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There is a scandal in the Czech Republic over plans to display maps of ISIS and Russian Crimea on trains

The largest Czech carrier, Czech Railways, offered local suppliers, trade unions and politicians a diary with a map of ISIS and Crimea, which was classified as Russian territory, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The Czech publication Týden reports this. The Czech Railways' diaries for 2018 caused a wave of surprise, the publication notes. "They…

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Visa and MasterCard threaten to shut down all of Russia from July 1

Moscow - Kyiv, May 23 (Navigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The Americans are ready to turn off the service of all bank cards in Russia from July 1, if Moscow does not remove political requirements for their payment systems. Subscribe to the “Navigator - Kyiv” news on Facebook or Vkontakte A meeting of representatives of Visa and MasterCard with the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Siluanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov is scheduled for May 23.…

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The situation with Crimea has confused cartographers

Kyiv - Washington, April 03 (Navigator, Alisa Filatova) - Since the referendum in Crimea, this region of Europe has become a real puzzle for cartographers: how to depict the peninsula? Subscribe to the Navigator - Kyiv news on Facebook or VKontakte The Washington Post newspaper studied Google maps. Crimea is now among those called the “gray zone”. These are regions that have a “dubious” status...

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