The Magistrate's Court of the Tagansky District of Moscow fined the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia project manager 2 million rubles, Interfax reports .
The statement says that the project did not remove articles with “false information about the special operation” (part 2 of article 13. 41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is not reported which texts they refused to delete, but in May Roskomnadzor demanded that Wikipedia remove the English-language articles Rashism (“Rashizm”) and 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (“Russian invasion of Ukraine – 2022”).
In August, it became known that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was trying to find Wikipedia administrators in order to identify the identities of those who disseminate illegal, according to Russian law enforcement officers, information. The search is carried out by the Center for Combating Extremism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On August 23, a domestic version of Wikipedia "without Western influence" was launched in Russia. The war in the news on the propaganda portal was called a "special operation." Three hours after the launch, the service stopped working. His work was later restored.
In April, Roskomnadzor sent two notices to the Russian-language Wikipedia demanding the removal of two sections from an article about Russian President Vladimir Putin – "Relations with Ukraine (2012 – present)" and "After the invasion of Ukraine (2022)". In the second, among other things, there is a subsection "Historical analogies with Hitler", where Putin's actions during the war with Ukraine are compared with the actions of the German dictator during World War II.