Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia

Re:Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia by cpursley on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:25PM (#21651079)

Well, yes - this deportation happened and is one of the many dark moments in USSR history. Glad you brought this up - difficult to write the entire history of the region on hn. The history of the Pontic Greeks and then later, Italian city states, in the Black Sea is really fascinating.

This is a pretty decent English language history of the area: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_(book)

Also, I didn't know about "mova", neat - this language or dialect was spoken in Crimea?

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Re:Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia by brutt on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:40PM (#21651235)

Molva (~rumors, «народная молва») was common name of folk language spoken at territory of (Kievan) Russia. Later it was replaced by official developed language, called yazyk ( tongue, «язык»), which was based on ancient dialect of South Slavic language, as spoken in Russian churches.

However, leaders of folk movement, later known as Ukrainians, developed and enhanced folk language, which then was renamed into Ukrainian language, and used as one of symbols of independence from Moscow, so it was systematically suppressed by government of Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation.

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Re:Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia by cpursley on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:34PM (#21652343)

Very interesting. Thank you / Дякую / Спасибо.

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