2015-08-24 17:24 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru:
Today, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications instructed all Russian internet providers to block all user access to Wikipedia. All involved parties are aware of the development. I am not sure whether only ru.wikipedia.org will be blocked, or all WMF projects. In the latter case, if you are going to travel to Russia, you will need to gen an IP exempt flag in advance in the projects you are going to edit.
Cheers Yaroslav
Now after less than a day the access is being restored again. The Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications removed the article from the list (there are several more Wikipedia articles which are still there, but there is no immediate threat for the time being). It is not clear why they decided to change their mind.
Cheers Yaroslav