A full-scale launch of Ruwiki, a Russian version of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia, will take place on Monday, according to Russian media reports. Beta testing – a limited audience ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the Council on Russian Language on November 5 and proposed a Russian version of Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia, reports Deutsche Welle. This ...

On March 1, after a week of horror in Ukraine, reports came out that Russia’s censorship office had threatened to block Russian Wikipedia. A 32-year-old who asked to be called Alexander soon made a ...

Russia's telecommunications regulator has doubled down on its warning to Russian-language Wikipedia over an article it says contains "inaccurate information" about the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.

March 2 (Reuters) - Russian authorities have threatened to block Wikipedia's Russian-language site over an article that mentions deaths among Ukrainian civilians as well as the Russian forces that ...

Russia’s ban on Russian-language Wikipedia lasted only a few hours, ending on Tuesday. A Russian communications watchdog agency told Internet providers to block access to the popular site’s Russian ...

(CNN) — A Moscow court has fined the Wikimedia Foundation for refusing to remove an article on Russian-language Wikipedia called “The Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia region,” according to state ...

The Russian government, headed by Vladimir Putin, wants to create an internet blacklist, and activist-minded website Wikipedia has gone black in protest. The Russian-language Wikipedia temporarily ...