The foundation supporting Wikipedia was fined three million rubles for failing to remove articles about the war.

A court in Moscow fined the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports Wikipedia, three million rubles under the article on failure to delete information subject to deletion (Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code). Interfax is about this.

reports the fine magistrate judge of court district No. 422 of the Tagansky district. The reason for it was the foundation’s refusal to remove articles from the online encyclopedia about the war in Ukraine, including about Russia using nuclear weapons and about Russian for Ukrainians.

appointed threats to filtration camps Since April 2022, Wikimedia has been fined more than ten times due to refusal to remove information. In most cases, the reason was publications about the war. So, for the first time, the foundation was on April 26, 2022, due to articles about victims in Bucha and Mariupol, and the last time, on June 6, 2023, the reason was an article about the Azov regiment.

fined was - the Wikimedia Foundation is an American non-profit organization that owns an online encyclopedia and maintains the infrastructure for a number of wiki projects, including Wikipedia.

• In May 2022, Roskomnadzor will remove articles about the war in Ukraine from the English-language Wikipedia. Then in July, search engines marked the online encyclopedia in search results as a violator of Russian laws. The department also “Wikipedia” with “a new line of constant information attacks on Russians.” demanded obliged named