[WikiEN-l] Policy across different languages

[jayjg]

It appears that Russian Wikipedia is about to reject Verifiability as a policy:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C

Verifiability is usually considered one of the 3 core content policies
on English Wikipedia.

This leads to a question; must the different Wikipedias have the same
core policies? Could Russian Wikipedia do away with NPOV and NOR as
well?  Could some other language Wikipedia do away with WP:CIVIL,
etc.?

Jay.