"Whose Crimea is there?" Bloggers about how Putin was looking for Ukraine on a map of the XVII century
Putin and Zorkin above the map Vladimir Putin met with the chairman of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin, who showed the president an old card. “We found a copy of the map compiled under Louis XIV, that is, the middle of the XVII century, the French. There are no Ukraine, there is a“ region ”in two places - the land of the Commonwealth, the South, and the Cossack region and the great kingdom,” Zorkin said.