Russia proposes to create an alternative to Wikipedia

Russian libraries are offered to create a domestic alternative to Wikipedia. According to ITAR-TASS, this idea was expressed by the general director of the Russian National Library Anton Likhomanov at a meeting of the Academic Council of the Yeltsin presidential library in St. Petersburg.

As the director of public relations and mass communications of the presidential library, Valentin Sidorin, told the agency, the meeting participants agreed that Wikipedia contains many inaccuracies. In addition, they noted that now "some facts regarding geopolitics can be stated in it biased."

The general director of the presidential library, Alexander Vershinin, supported the idea of ​​Likhomanov, noting that work in this direction is already being carried out. At the end of 2013, Vershinin recalled, his library announced participation in the work on the portal "Regional Encyclopedias of Russia", which should be published by paper reference books devoted to various aspects of the life of the regions.

In October 2013, the media wrote that at the beginning of this year , the State Sputnik State Search system should be launched in Russia. As reported, the system will be promoted "at the state level", setting as a default search engine in power structures and state -owned companies. The costs of developing a "satellite" at that time were estimated at about $ 20 million. Meanwhile, while the state search engine has not earned.