A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced the online encyclopedia Wikipedia to pay a fine for two texts about the offensive in Ukraine.
Russian news agencies have reported that the Wikimedia Foundation will have to pay a fine of 2 million rubles (about R$170,000) for failing to remove these articles which, according to the court, contained false information.
The two articles were titled “Nonviolent Resistance of the Ukrainian Population in the Course of the Russian Invasion” and “Assessments of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022”.
“No one will delete” the two pages in question, and the court’s decision will be challenged in court, declared the director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Vladimir Medeiko. Wikipedia has several pages about the Ukrainian War, which have not yet been targeted by Russia.
This is the third fine imposed on the Foundation in Russia since the start of the conflict in February this year.
Networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram were blocked in the country, and Google was ordered to pay 360 million euros for not deleting content critical of the offensive from YouTube.
In 2015, Wikipedia was briefly included in the list of sites that should be blocked, for a text about charas, a strain of cannabis. Russian law prohibits the online publication of information about the use of narcotics.
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