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According to state media, 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.”
Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported Thursday that the foundation, which owns Wikipedia, a site with pages in around 300 languages, including Russian, has been fined 2 million rubles ($24,500).
TASS said that the court documents allege that Wikimedia refused to remove “material” about the hostilities “within the framework of the special military operation” in Ukraine and about the country’s Zaporizhzhia region becoming part of Russia.
Leighanna Mixter, senior legal manager at Wikimedia, confirmed the fine to CNN and said that, over recent months, the foundation had received “a steady stream of takedown orders that target well-sourced content on…
2023-04-14 11:33:13
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