The online encyclopedia is a hotbed of misinformation, the chair of the Presidential Human Rights Council has said.
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Since the start of the Ukraine conflict more than one year ago, the Russian authorities have accused Wikipedia of spreading “fake information” about Moscow’s military campaign in the neighboring country, and pressed the platform to remove materials – demands which were ignored. After this, Russia’s media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, required search engines to designate Wikipedia as an entity that “violates Russian law.”

In August 2022, Anton Gorelkin, the deputy head of the State Duma committee on information policy, announced the launch of a localized version of Wikipedia called Runiversalis, which he said would comply with the nation’s laws, be stored on servers in Russia, and be administered by a team of former Wikipedia editors.

At the time, Gorelkin said that the project’s authors were replicating Wikipedia’s articles, but clearing them of “propaganda and harmful content.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/574154-wikipedia-block-russia/