Google Maps drew the ire of Russians on Thursday for updating both its Russian and Ukrainian maps of the Crimean peninsula with new names. The decision to change the names was a response to a "de ...

The staff of Google Maps "suffer from topographical cretinism," charged Dmitry Polonsky, deputy chair of the Russian Council of Crimean Ministers, while Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov of ...

Russia has its own map services; we do not have to use Google,” reported the Moscow Times. A mere day later, Google reverted the 900 place names to their original status without explanation.

Vladimir Lazar was found guilty of turning over some 7,000 topographical maps of Russian territory to a U.S. agent in 2008. During his sentencing on May 31, ...