{"id":20453,"date":"2019-11-28T15:57:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T23:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20453"},"modified":"2019-11-28T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T23:57:41","slug":"apple-updates-maps-to-show-crimea-as-russian-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20453","title":{"rendered":"Apple updates maps to show Crimea as Russian territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has updated its Apple Maps and Weather apps to display the annexed territory of Crimea as Russian territory when viewed from Russia, in response to pressure from Moscow,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vjhmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzjghyrf_lmnmjjgkgrmjwdqhwnkg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vjhmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzjghyrf_lmnmjjgkgrmjwdqhwnkg.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575070856310000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHYlzEyfxChmMDJ8wbSmNb9gqAKQA\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Russia provoked international condemnation after annexing the region from Ukraine in 2014. The region will not appear as Russian territory in the apps in any other country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crimea and Sevastopol now appear on Apple devices as Russian territory,&#8221; the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, said in a statement when referencing the disputed territory as well as the naval port city that Moscow considers a separate region, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and Apple executives had been negotiating over what the State Duma called &#8220;inaccurate&#8221; labeling for months, with the company offering initially to display the region as part of neither country.<\/p>\n<p>Vasily Piskaryov, chairman of the Duma security and anti-corruption committee, told the country&#8217;s Interfax news agency that Russian officials told Apple it was a crime to label Crimea as Ukrainian territory under Russian law, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no going back,&#8221; Piskaryov said. &#8220;Today, with Apple, the situation is closed &#8212; we have received everything we wanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has updated its Apple Maps&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20454,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20453\/revisions\/20454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}