The assessment that he may be sanctioned and classified as a “foreign agent” in the event that a branch is opened in the Russia states the Russian Wikipedia through the executive director of the non-profit company Wikipedia.ru Stanislav Kazlovsky.
Stanislav Kazlovsky who represents her interests Wikipedia in Russia spoke at an enlarged meeting of the State Duma committee responsible for information policy, information technology and communications.
«If a formal non-profit agency is set up in Russia, it automatically becomes a “foreign agent”, and all the sanctions imposed on foreign agents are imposed on it.He said at a meeting of the committee, which is discussing the bill that obliges large IT companies to open branches in Russia or delegations.
According to the Athenian News Agency, Kazlovsky added that Wikipedia is a non-profit organization and its Russian section exists thanks to user subscriptions, while the articles are written by its visitors who are also the intellectual owners of this content.
Earlier, the chairman of the State Duma committee, Alexander Hoystein (one of the authors of the bill), clarified that the preliminary list of websites, the owners of which will be forced to open a branch or dealership in Russia, includes 20 platforms. These include the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch.tv, WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, Gmail, Google, Bing.com), Amazon, Digital Ocean, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Aliexpress online stores .com, Ikea.com, Iherb.com), as well as Wikipedia.org.
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