Can Muscovites point to Crimea on a map?
8 May 2014 Last updated at 20:09 BST
A recent survey in the US showed that only one in six Americans are able to find Ukraine on a map of the world.
The BBC's Russian Service took to the streets of the Russian capital with a similar test to see if a random selection of Muscovites could locate Crimea on a map.
Yulia Ochetova reports.
Video produced by BBC Russian's Oleg Boldyrev