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Within the Russian Federation, a number of Wikipedia articles have been banned. Some of the banned articles have resulted in fines levied against the Wikimedia Foundation. [1] As of July 2023, there have been a total of 7 fines totaling 8.4 million rubles. [2] The Wikimedia Foundation has appealed these fines in court, [3] and has lost. [4]
On 4 August 2016, a Moscow court ruled that LinkedIn must be blocked in Russia because it stores the user data of Russian citizens outside of the country, in violation of the new data retention law. This ban was upheld on 10 November 2016. [51] and the ban was officially issued by Roskomnadzor on 17 November 2016. [52]
Within three years of the adoption of the law, more than 25 Russian Wikipedia articles, mainly about drugs and suicide, entered the Unified Register of Prohibited Sites. [2] [3] [4] Most of these articles, after some time, were removed from the register. However, on August 24, 2015, there was a short blocking of Wikipedia in Russia. [5]
[66] [67] On 6 February 2023, the Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, ordered the PTA to immediately remove the ban on Wikipedia. The reason for lifting the ban was that "Wikipedia was a useful site/portal which supported the dissemination of knowledge and information for the general public, students and the academia". [68]
Reporters Without Borders criticized the procedure by which entries are added to the blacklist as "extremely opaque", and viewed it as part of an attack on the freedom of information in Russia. [82] In 2012, when the banned content only included child pornography, drugs and suicide, the human rights activists have expressed fear that the ...
Censorship is controlled by the Government of Russia and by civil society in the Russian Federation, applying to the content and the diffusion of information, printed documents, music, works of art, cinema and photography, radio and television, web sites and portals, and in some cases private correspondence, with the aim of limiting or preventing the dissemination of ideas and information that ...
Unfortunately, the practice of applying the law in Russia suggests a high probability of exactly this, the worst scenario" and a link to an article about the bill on Wikipedia. By the evening of July 10, VKontakte , the largest social network in Runet , placed a banner poster on all its pages with the text: "The Russian State Duma is hearing a ...
Many organizations were banned based on the Russian foreign agent law and Russian undesirable organizations law. Among them were Open Russia, National Endowment for Democracy, Open Society Foundations, U.S. Russia Foundation, International Republican Institute, Media Development Investment Fund and National Democratic Institute. [1]