Wikimedia RU

Wikimedia RU (Russian: Викимедиа РУ), also known as Wikimedia Russia was a non-profit Wikimedia chapter created to support the creation and maintenance of articles in the Russian-language Wikipedia.

In 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 the organization was awarded the Runet award.

As of 2022, the director of Wikimedia Russia was Vladimir Medeiko.

Following increasing attacks on its members by the Russian government under Vladimir Putin, Wikimedia Russia was shut down in 2023.

Bloomberg has speculated that this may be a move toward replacing the Russian Wikipedia in Russia with Ruwiki, a Wikipedia fork seen as being more sympathetic to the Russian government's propaganda aims.

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