Three days ago, the Commission for the Standardization of Place Names Outside the Republic of Poland announced that only the Polish name Królewiec is recommended for Kaliningrad. Google Maps quickly adapted to this recommendation.
On Tuesday, the Commission for the Standardization of Place Names Outside the Republic of Poland announced on May 9 that only the Polish name Królewiec is recommended for Kaliningrad and that the use of the name Kaliningrad in Polish is not recommended. The Commission emphasizes that it has taken into account that the city that currently bears the Russian name of Kaliningrad is known in Poland under the traditional name of Koenigsberg and that the current Russian name of this city is “an artificial baptism, not associated with either the city or the region”.
Not Kaliningrad, but Koenigsberg. Google responds
According to the Committee for the Standardization of Geographical Names Outside the Republic of Poland, the assignment of a city located near the borders of Poland, named after M.I. Kalinin, the criminal responsible, among other things, for passing the decision “on the mass murder of Poles (the Katyn massacre) has an emotional, negative character in Poland.”
Google quickly responded to the commission’s recommendation. In Google Maps, the Russian name of the city and region is no longer there, but Koenigsberg and the Koenigsberg region. According to Money.pl, the Olsztyn branch of the General Directorate of National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) has begun an inventory of road signs bearing the name Kaliningrad.
This was commented by the official representative of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov. - This is no longer Russophobia, this is a process bordering on insanity, what is happening in Poland - Yes, Peskov answered the question of how he assesses the fact that Kaliningrad will be called Koenigsberg in Poland.
Moscow court punished Google
As we have already reported, a court in Moscow imposed an administrative fine of 3 million rubles on Google for “failure to remove content containing false information about the course of a special operation in Ukraine and propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and relationships.”
According to court records, these are several YouTube videos showing the real face of the Russian war, as well as content about homosexuals and videos about Russian prostitutes.
Google filed a motion to penalize Google with Roskomnadzor (the Russian agency responsible for monitoring, controlling and censoring Russian media) after the service failed to comply with sent takedown notices.
Source: Wprost
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