According to sources, two administrative cases filed by the Wikimedia Foundation were submitted to the Moscow Tver District Court, writes 24 Channel. The organization seeks to outlaw the court’s notification of a violation of the order to disseminate information on “Wikipedia” and the request of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office to implement measures to restrict access to this information.

what is known

Details of the process are not yet known. The Wikimedia Foundation lawyers probably found a problem with the messages/requests. For example, gross violation of the procedure. If the court finds that the law has been violated, failure to comply with illegal requests to remove materials will not be considered a violation and fines will be waived.

• In February 2023, the Wikimedia Foundation was fined 2 million rubles for refusing to remove material about Russian military units from Wikipedia.
• In April 2023, a Moscow court initially fined the Wikimedia Foundation 800,000 rubles for not removing material related to the song of the group “Psyche”, which was declared extremist in Russia.
• In the same April, the organization was fined another 1.5 million rubles for refusing to remove an article on Russian crimes in Ukraine.

Russia has also included the Wikimedia Foundation on its so-called “landing list”; this means that the company must open a physical representative office with an office on the territory of Russia and register a personal account on the Roskomnadzor website for interaction. authorities. After that, the site must limit access to information that violates Russian legislation. If these requirements are not met, the department may impose a number of measures on the violator, up to the partial or complete blocking of the resource.

The hearings in this case have not yet begun. The first meeting will be held on June 10..