Coca-ColaAn apparently innocuous New Year message issued by Coca-Cola on social media has left consumers in Ukraine and Russia seeing red, following the decision to first include an image of the disputed territory of Crimea, before then erasing it.
Russia annexed the peninsula in March 2014 at the height of a proxy war with the Ukraine, a move which has been at the heart of simmering local and international tensions ever since.
It was into this morass that Coca-Cola unwittingly tread with their Russian New Year’s message published on VK, the largest social network in Russia, after it opted to erase the …read more
Source: Business Insider
