Russia has replaced the Look with a Ruviki, an online encyclopedia of the state-sponsored. This is the clone of a Wikipedia that is original in the Russian language, is a person's name in order to be appropriate to remove information that could be harmful to the image of the government. The Russian for Wikipedia's referred to the original version as well as Ruviki, while the new, keeping the “ruwiki” in the URL, kopjoi and put it together with the least of all of the items, in accordance with the laws of the Russian.
The censorship, and the actions of the strategic
Items Ruviki remove systematic përmendjet of the “foreign agents,” who are the people or organizations that express views critical of the government of the Russian and get the support from the outside, as defined by the Kremlin.
“Agent of a foreign principal include the foundation, set up by Alexei Navalny, the leader of the late opposition, and in a Memorial, which is an organization, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the terror, the soviet, which was likuidua in the year 2022. The rumors about these entities include the following statement on the status of their own to be an agent of a foreign , with Navalny described it as a “video blogger” is included in “the activities as extremists, or terrorists”, despite the confidence of his wife, that he had been killed.
The closing of The LE, and the birth of the Ruvikit
The LE, in the chapter of the Russian Wikipedia was forced to close in 2023, due to the pressures that are associated with the war in Ukraine. Vladimir Medeyko, the former head of the chapter, and is now the head of the Ruvikit , said, Look, there were problems with “the credibility and neutrality”. In June, it announced plans to copy, and the censor of 1.9 million, the articles of Wikipedia, in Russian, to make them “accountable” to the user's Russian.
By August, about 110 of the articles on the war in Ukraine was missing entirely, while others were of the view so much. The article is about the invasion of the Russian of the Ukraine, for example, it was renamed “the military Actions in the Ukraine (in 2022),” and it begins by saying that the war is being conducted in order to ensure the safety and security of Russia and the demilitarized Ukraine, with reference to Putinin.
Disputes over the Medeyko, and the response of the community of Wikipedia
Medeyko there was a picture of the issue in the regions of the Wikimedia years. He was accused of having used Wikipedia, Russian, mainly to raise money for themselves and for their support of the invasion of the Ukraine. The community of Russian Wikipedia, critical thinking for him, it was his initiative, and to be seen as the beginning of a enciklopedie pro-government, which will replace the Wikipedia. The Media, next to the kremlin's, which has been accused for a long time Look as well as anti-Russian, the country and supported the project.
Omissions and change in the articles of the Ruvikit
Ruvikit exclude the possibility systematically, the items that are to be inadequate to the government of the Russian, like the torture in the prisons, or the scandals that included a representative of the kremlin's. The article is about the gazetaren Anna Politkovskaya, killed in the year 2006 and it is a lot shorter than that of the Crater, and it includes a single reference to the threats made by the prime minister at the time was the chechen Ramzan Kadyrov.
An analysis of the designer the graphic Constantine Konovalov discovered the scale of the changes: 205,000 of changes in articles about free speech, 158,000 for the rights of man, 96,000 for the political prisoners, and 71,000 for the censoring in Russia. In a post on the X in it, wrote that the censorship seems to be “cut off from the novel 1984”, referring to the Orwellit, the story of whose Ruvikit , strangely enough, to leave entirely out of the Ministry of Truth: the organ of the propaganda of the novel.
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