While the Western world refuses to recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea, one of its largest newspapers just did.
On Tuesday, the front page of USA Today displayed a map of Ukraine that does not include the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow seized last year and voted to formally annex in March.
A spokesperson for the newspaper giant did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Gannett’s flagship broadsheet is the top U.S. newspaper by total average daily circulation, a figure that includes digital readership.
It’s unclear if the exclusion of Crimea, first flagged by a loyal FP reader, is the result of a …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
