The New York Times says that the newspaper did not recognize Russia’s position on Crimea by marking the peninsula on an illustration map to a column on Kerch bridge as “disputed territory” and that the move is in line with the publication’s standards, RBC reported citing NYT’s formal reply to its request.
The American daily newspaper The New York Times has published a map where occupied Crimea is marked in the same color as the territory of Russia and is signed as "disputed," chess grandmaster, writer and political activist Garry Kasparov wrote on Twitter.
Italy’s World Fashion Channel is facing the prospect of being banned in Ukraine, according to the U.K.-based Broadband TV News.
Ukraine's Ambassador to Italy Yevhen Perelygin says the Italian sports edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport has apologized for having designated Crimea as a Russian territory in one of its articles, according to the Ukrainian media outlet Europeiska Pravda.