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Russian embassy in Sweden posts pre-war map of Ukraine that is ILLEGAL in Russia.
Link to tweet
The russian Duma passed a new law at the beginning of 2023, declaring certain maps of countries to be "extremist material" whose possession is illegal.
So, if you get caught in Russia with a map that shows
* the Kuril Islands belonging to Japan instead of Russia
and/or
* Donetsk-oblast and/or Luhansk-oblast and/or Zaporizhzhya-oblast and/or Kherson-oblast and/or Crimea belonging to Ukraine instead of Russia
then you go to jail.
Which means that the russian embassy just posted a picture that is illegal by russian law.
