Apple Recognizes Russian Claim To Crimea, Still Hasn't Bought Russia

Apple has reached an agreement to label Crimea and Sevastopol as Russian territory (archived). Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 following the Maidan color revolution in Ukraine, and around that time USG aligned media organs began asserting that Apple could buy Russia. Apple has not yet bought Russia.

4 thoughts on “Apple Recognizes Russian Claim To Crimea, Still Hasn't Bought Russia

  1. Hello

    The second link points to the same as the first one, I assume this was not the original intention.

  2. Is this just me? o.O

    $ curl -v -A Mozilla/5.0 http://archive.is/
    * Trying 62.192.168.106…
    * TCP_NODELAY set
    * Connected to archive.is (62.192.168.106) port 80 (#0)
    > GET / HTTP/1.1
    > Host: archive.is
    > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
    > Accept: */*
    >
    < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    < Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 21:43:02 GMT
    < Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    < Refresh: 5
    < Retry-After: 5
    < Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
    < Pragma: no-cache
    < Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT
    < Server: nginx/1.9.2
    < Accept-Ranges: bytes
    < Content-Length: 612
    < Connection: keep-alive
    <

    <table width="100%" height="100%"><tr valign="center"><td align="center"><img src="//www.henley-putnam.edu/Portals/_default/Skins/henley/images/loading.gif"></td></tr></table>
    <script type='text/javascript'>
    (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
    (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
    m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
    })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
    ga('create', 'UA-'+483*83597+'-2', 'auto');
    ga('send', 'pageview');
    </script>
    * Connection #0 to host archive.is left intact

  3. Interesting, but you know some names should never resolve…

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