'#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
- Made by
- UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Digital posts
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Cameron Government
- Leader
- David Cameron
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- Event
- Annexation of Crimea
- Techniques
- BandwagonCard 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), 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
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.
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