[Advocacy Advisors] [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

[Tomasz W. Kozlowski]

Hi again,
so I spent some time looking into the problem and wrote a short summary 
at http://twkozlowski.net/russian-wikipedia-under-threat-again/ 
(<shameless promotion mode="off" />) -- if anyone cares about what's 
happening outside of the US, that is.

As described in the summary, there are plans for a massive strike on the 
Russian Internet (Runet) on August 1, with the bill being described as 
the Russian equivalent of SOPA. It also looks to me like there is some 
public opposition against the bill (a petition to the President of 
Russia already has over 130,000 signatures with just 100,000 being 
required), so the situation is developing quite interestingly.

	-- Tomasz