(MENAFN- AzerNews) The magistrate court in Moscow has levied a fine against the
Wikimedia Foundation, which owns the Russian-language Wikipedia, in
the amount of three million rubles ($36,800) for refusing to remove
publication about the Ukrainian nationalist regiment Azov
[recognized in 2022 in Russia as a terrorist organization - TASS],
Azernews reports, citing TASS.
"To find Wikimedia Foundation guilty under part 2 article 13.41
of the Administrative Offense Code of Russia (failure of the owner
of a website to delete information or a web-page in case the
obligation to delete such information, such a web page, is
stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation) and impose
a penalty on this entity in the form of a fine in the amount of
3,000,000 rubles," Judge Timur Vakhrameev said.
It follows from case materials that Roskomnadzor, a Russian mass
media watchdog, found the article about Azov on Wikipedia and
demanded to remove it. This was not done and the regulator prepared
an administrative offense protocol in respect of Wikimedia
Foundation and handed it over to the court.
In February 2023, the organization was fined 2 million rubles
($24,500) for publishing data on the places of deployment three
military units of the Russian Federation.
According to Roskomnadzor, banned materials remain on the
Wikipedia portal, including false information about what was going
on in the special military operation in Ukraine. In this regard,
the Wikimedia Foundation is tagged in search engines as a violator
of Russian law. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is a non-profit
organization registered as a charitable foundation in the United
States. The organization is known as a platform for Wikipedia and
related projects.
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