2015-08-24 17:24 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru>:
Today, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of
Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications instructed
all
Russian internet providers to block all user access to Wikipedia. All
involved parties are aware of the development. I am not sure whether
only
ru.wikipedia.org will be blocked, or all WMF projects. In the latter
case, if you are going to travel to Russia, you will need to gen an IP
exempt flag in advance in the projects you are going to edit.
Cheers
Yaroslav
Now after less than a day the access is being restored again. The
Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom,
Information Technologies and Mass Communications removed the article
from the list (there are several more Wikipedia articles which are still
there, but there is no immediate threat for the time being). It is not
clear why they decided to change their mind.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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