Roskomnadzor excluded Wikipedia from the register of prohibited sites

Today, August 25, Roskomnadzor announced that the link to the page of the Russian version of the online encyclopedia "Wikipedia" with a description of the narcotic substance is excluded from the register of prohibited information.

“The decision of the Chernoyarsky court of the Astrakhan region in relation to the Internet Encyclopedia“ Wikipedia ”is executed. The information recognized by the court prohibited is edited. - It is said in the message on the website of Roskomnadzor. “ An article on the drugs of Charas, which is currently contained in Wikipedia, according to the expert opinion of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia, does not violate the requirements of the law.”

The court decision was made in June. At the end of last week, it became known that the administration of the Russian -speaking Wikipedia, despite the threat of blocking, decided not to delete the article in a court decision.

On Monday, August 24, Roskomnadzor sent to block the telecommunication operators the sign of the Wikipedia site page with this article, some Russian Internet providers began blocking. Earlier, Wikipedia published instructions on how to bypass the lock if the encyclopedia website is included in the register of prohibited sites.

“The servers on which the Russian -speaking and other sections of the Wikipedia are located will not suffer in any way when blocking access to Wikipedia: all the contents and the entire contribution of Wikipedia participants will be fully preserved. - It is noted in the instructions. “Access to all language sections will remain everywhere, with the exception of the territories where it is blocked.” In addition to Russia, among countries where access to Wikipedia is partially or completely blocked, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia are called the instructions.

The termination of access to one of the pages of Wikipedia would cause a complete blocking of her site, because, as TASS explained by the Director of NP Vikimedia.ru, Vladimir Medeiko, “Wikipedia” uses a secure protocol, which does not allow providers and other persons that are between the user of the resource and the resource, to determine what pages he reads, what data transmits, receives. ”