Weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that his country develop an alternative to the massively popular Wikipedia free online encyclopedia one prominent editor has revealed he was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

The world is still reeling from the shock of the deaths of 298 people on Malaysian flight MH17, which was shot down in Ukraine yesterday, but the battle to write and rewrite history has already begun ...