An amendment to Russia’s new “anti-extremism” legislation currently on its way to being passed by the Kremlin’s rubber stamp parliament classifies maps showing the country’s borders without the territory it supposedly annexed from eastern Ukraine are “extremist materials,” Reuters reports.
The bill, which outlaws “cartographic and other documents and images that dispute the territorial integrity of Russia,” also applies to depictions of the disputed Kuril Islands, a remote archipelago off Russia’s far eastern Pacific coast which for decades have also been claimed by Japan.