Ukrainian lawmakers have called for a boycott on Coca-Cola products after the company published a map of Russia on social media that included the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russia’s territory.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 after pro-European protesters toppled Ukraine’s pro-Russian government of then President Viktor Yanukovych. Relations between Kiev and Moscow have since disintegrated and the EU, U.N. General Assembly and U.S. have backed Ukraine by refusing to recognize Crimea as Russian territory. But Russia has since established control over Crimea and has moved to highlight the peninsula’s apparently historical relationship with Russia.
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Source: Newsweek
