On July 27 Internet giant Google renamed a number of towns, villages, and settlements in Crimea - a peninsula in Ukraine that has been under Russian control since early 2014 - on their Google Maps service. The change came after the Ukrainian parliament altered the names of 70 geographic locations in Crimea in accordance with its "decommunization" campaign in May 2016.
Global Voices: Here’s why Google Maps changed some town names in Crimea – and is now changing them back
Pedestrians walk past an wall painting depicting a map of Crimean peninsula bearing the colours of Russia's national flag in Moscow, on March 31, 2014.
