I wonder if this is related to the recent blocking of reddit.
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http://www.vocativ.com/news/221534/the-story-behind-russias-reddit-shutdown/
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> To me the basic step in such a case like this is translating the article
> about the agency in more languages, so that people can get more background
> information. The article:
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_in_the_Sphere…
> Creating awareness starts with having a
good article about the organisation
> in question.
> Romaine
> 2015-08-24 17:24 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M.
Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru>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
>
> >
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