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title: '''#RussiaIsolated'' Foreign & Commonwealth Office infographic'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/russia-isolated-fco-infographic-2014/
description: 'Tall blue infographic headed ''#RussiaIsolated'' and ''In numbers: the international support for Russia''s position on Crimea''.'
section: Collection
---

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[!['#RussiaIsolated' Foreign & Commonwealth Office infographic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/russia-isolated-fco-infographic-2014.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/russia-isolated-fco-infographic-2014.jpg)

# '#RussiaIsolated' Foreign & Commonwealth Office infographic

Tall blue infographic headed '#RussiaIsolated' and 'In numbers: the international support for Russia's position on Crimea'. It stacks four tallies with Russia alone on one side: 1 country recognising Crimea as Russian, 1 against 56 on an OSCE mission, 31 sanctioning states, and a 1 to 13 UN Security Council vote. The tell is the counting: numbers of states stand in for the merits, and states that abstained or took no side are not tallied.

- **Date:** March 21, 2014
- **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary)
- **Made by:** UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [United Kingdom](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-kingdom)
- **Medium:** [Digital posts](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=digital-post)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Cameron Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=cameron-government)
- **Leader:** [David Cameron](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=david-cameron)
- **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [Annexation of Crimea](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=annexation-of-crimea)
- **Techniques:** [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Flickr stream of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20140321_RussiaIsolated_Infographic_(13307575004).jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** UK Open Government Licence v1.0 (FCO Flickr stream, via Commons) Foreign and Commonwealth Office, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
#RussiaIsolated

In numbers: the international support for Russia's position on Crimea

Countries that recognise Crimea as part of Russia
1
(Russia)

Position of OSCE member states on a monitoring mission in Ukraine
Against
1
(Russia)
For
56
(rest of the OSCE)

Number of countries imposing sanctions against Russia in support of Ukraine
31
(28 EU member states, US, Canada & Australia)

Position of 15 UN Security Council member states on a resolution criticising the referendum in Crimea
Vetoed
1
(Russia)
Supported
13
(rest of Security Council, China abstained)
```

The Royal Arms crest above the FCO name is a graphic, not transcribed. The image was read in four vertical sections; the line 'Position of 15 UN Security Council member states on a resolution criticising the' runs across a section break and its last word is 'referendum in Crimea' on the next line.

[← Вместе с Россией. 16 марта – Референдум! (Together with Russia. 16 March: Referendum!): Simferopol billboards](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vmeste-s-rossiei-simferopol-2014/) [Russian Defence Ministry satellite image, MH17 briefing →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mh17-buk-briefing-image-2014/)

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