The link works at the top. Since it's a featured quiz you can always copy the quiz and download the SVG in the editor. I'm slowly working on replacing the map with my own, and when that's complete I'll remove the link to Languages of Liberty's site.
According to Russia, it is officially a part of the country. You have both a federal city (Sevastopol) and a republic (Crimea), which I personally think should be considered in this type of quiz when it's about the federal subject.
As a Crimean, what I would do is add Crimea and Sevastopol automatically, in some sort of grey area and put a little (DISPUTED) thing near it, and like shade it on the map, yknow
Crimea is not an internationally recognized part of Russia. Russia illegally annexed the peninsula and it is quite concerning that you include it in your quiz. You have not added illegally annexed portions of Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) to your quiz though Russia claims them after annexation in 2008. Crimea is not part of Russia. Also, it's Sevastopol, not Sebastopol. Educate yourself a bit.
I wrote Sevastopol in the quiz, but Sebastopol has been used in English for a long time. South Ossetia and Abkhazia are de facto Russian controlled but Russia does not claim them as her territory. International recognition means little, otherwise no one would call Taiwan a country.
Can you fix the quiz somehow, so labels always appear when you hover over the regions? I notice some, including Sakha and Chukotka, only have say "SA" or something.
You say Crimea isn't part of Russia, yet it is explicitly depicted as part of Russia on every part of this site, and the Crimeans voted freely and fairly to join Russia, and are now full members of the Russian Republic.
Taiwan and Kosovo aren't "official" either, yet they are also here, because they are separate countries. I do not see why you exclude Crimea.
The quiz creator chose to leave it out. I respect their decision. Certainly Crimea is controlled by Russia. However, their seizure of the peninsula was roundly condemned by the international community. I say any quizmaker who wants to make a quiz can make a personal choice on whether to include Crimea or not.
I got 35. Worth 2 points. I doubt I'll ever do better than that. I'd like to thank... some general knowledge of geography and history, many hours spent playing the board game RISK, the biggest Russian cities quiz on JetPunk, Muslim separatists, the Georgian civil war, the oddly named building across from my cousin's dorm at university, the summer I spent in Russia in 2016, the cute Ukrainian girl I dated in Kiev, a bunch of different working girls in the hotels of Bahrain, and some random guessing. Thank you. You made these 2 points possible.
Seems like the average is going down. My high score hasn't changed but I'm up to 3 points, now. Probably there were a lot of hits on this quiz from Russians using the site before it got featured.
Crimea should be here, it is a part of Russia. If someones disputes it, please check the ethnical composition of the region... that will help decide whether it really belongs to Russia or not.
Kosovo and Taiwan are not 100% internationally accepted as well, but still represented on Jetpunk as independent states....
Crimea is not an internationally recognized part of Russia. Russia illegally annexed the peninsula. Illegally annexed portions of Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) are not in this quiz though Russia claims them after annexation in 2008. Russia also claims Transnistria in Moldova, but that is also not in this quiz. Crimea isn't a part of Russia any more than Alaska is...
Russian controls Crimea, that is crucial here. I want people to understand that I am not letting sentiments get in the way of my decision making, if and when Ukraine has administrative control of Crimea again, then I will edit the quiz.
The territory is de facto and de jure Russian territory, and majority of Crimeans want it that way. I don't think the West's opinion is what decides this.
Jiaozira any referendum put on by the Kremlin is a referendum at gunpoint. Learn your history instead of falling for disinformation and colonial apologism.
Perhaps I explained myself poorly, most people on Crimea are ethnic Russians who would have more likely than not, voted to join with Russia. Many Crimean Tatars boycotted the referendum. The fact is, Russia controls Crimea. Whether or not that is ethical is beyond the point here, I generally try to draw the map based on what a country reasonably controls. Many people object to China's control of Tibet, but that doesn't mean it should be excluded from the map of China. I am not at all a supporter of colonial apologism, I'm not convinced how it fits here. I just don't see how disagreeing with Russia's annexation of Crimea changes anything (and I do see hypocrisy in the way the West treats these sorts of issues, although that is basically diplomacy in a nutshell).
The annexation of Crimea is not accepted by the international community. Crimea is not a province of Russia, but rather, an illegally occupied territory. Out of respect for those being persecuted by the Russian state there, please remove Crimea from this list.
It is a suffix(?). For example, Novosibirsk translates into 'New Siberian'. 'Novo' means new. 'Sibir' means Siberia, but if we want to make it 'Siberian' then it becomes Sibirsk. Novo+Sibir+sk. Often times cities and places are marked like this, to show geographic placement. For example, 'Irkutsk' is on the Irkut River, Amursk on the Amur river, etc.
First of all thanks you for all your fantastic quiz!
I wanted to tell you that I have made a French version of this quiz (in order to learn it in French in a funnier way) and I it turned out it has been featured in French. I am sorry I didn't ask you first. If it bother you I can delete it.
I am completely fine with that, as the (featured) translated quiz is not my creation to begin with.
It doesn't bother me if people translate my quizzes without asking first, that was standard procedure when I joined Jetpunk. Clearly you are using it to learn, too, and I fully support the use of the quiz for that :)
Hi, I played this quiz, and it took me a long time to figure out how to write the Jewish AO. I tried Evreysky, Yevreyskiy, Evreisky, Jew, etc. Could you add some of these as type-ins? This will make it more convenient for Russian speakers.
Took this after the humiliation of our Foreign Secretary (lizz Truss) by the Russian one. I only got 7 so I'm not going to be to harsh on her, but I don't have a team of Foreign affairs specialists to brief me.
It's still a little early to add them in my opinion, but assuming Russia maintains administrative control over the oblasts then I will make the changes in future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmHsKdpPTPk
Taiwan and Kosovo aren't "official" either, yet they are also here, because they are separate countries. I do not see why you exclude Crimea.
Kosovo and Taiwan are not 100% internationally accepted as well, but still represented on Jetpunk as independent states....
Thanks for allowing me to use your map. Up to you, but would you be happy to link to the Russian version in the instructions/notes for this quiz?
First of all thanks you for all your fantastic quiz!
I wanted to tell you that I have made a French version of this quiz (in order to learn it in French in a funnier way) and I it turned out it has been featured in French. I am sorry I didn't ask you first. If it bother you I can delete it.
It doesn't bother me if people translate my quizzes without asking first, that was standard procedure when I joined Jetpunk. Clearly you are using it to learn, too, and I fully support the use of the quiz for that :)
Btw, can I use the map for my own quiz? I'm planning to do 10 biggest cities by federal subject quiz or something like that
10 biggest cities in each Russian Federal Subject with a map
dang y'all are good at Russian geography