Let me try to explain if you just excuse my foul language: RussiaToday is a sovereign democracy who may decide that western pedophiles like Pyotr Ilyich Czajkowski or Vladimir Nabokov or Reaganist AIDS weaklings like Rudolph Nureyev may be demonized as Unrussian and must not be depicted nonnegatively in front of Russia's minors. This is not how i would handle it but it works to intimidate the islamic west from expanding disrespectfully into the Soviet empire. Am 12.11.2014 18:49 schrieb "rubin.happy" rubin.happy@gmail.com:

Hello, guys!

We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia:

http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc237184.p...

The only WMF comment I received in #wikimedia-fundraising was that "we don't run fundraising in Russia at the moment". Russia is now blacklisted like Libya, like Congo, like Iraq.

I always though that WMF is free from politics and tends to be transparent, but why such a decision was made? And why nobody informed us (at least, Wikimedia RU) about it?

Now we are starting to receive negative feedbacks from users and readers who treat WMF as a politically motivated organization, not a non-profit organization promoting free knowledge.

And as we got no comments from Fundraising team and have no idea what happened, we at Wikimedia RU are not able to cope with such negative publicity.

It's now late evening in Russia, but the messages were already posted to some top websites of Russia, and this will be promoted quickly via social networks: so, tomorrow will be a bad day for wiki-movement in our country.

WMF, I want to thank you a lot for your transparency.

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