Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-12-24/In focus - Wikipedia
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Briefly: Stanislav Kozlovsky, the director of Russian Wikimedia project (which supports the Russian Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.), has been declared a “foreign agent” by Russia. He has been forced to resign from his job at the Moscow State University. Following the event, Russian Wikimedia has decided to dissolve itself.

English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2023-12-24%2FIn_focus

Russian: https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Ликвидация_Викимедиа_РУ

  • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4431·
    11 months ago

    … unfortunate, but his own safety has to come first for him. Maybe just don’t travel to Russia in the first place though.

        • astreus@lemmy.mlEnglish
          322·
          11 months ago

          The privileged Russians, you mean. I know a few people in Russia, good people, that have no prospects of ever getting out.

          Being able to pick a country to reside in is a privilege most people can’t afford, and that’s before you factor in only 5% of Russians can speak English and that’s makes up 80% of the foreign language speakers in Russia and you’ve got yourself a very immobile population.

          • sab@kbin.social
            4·
            11 months ago

            There’s a lot of less resourceful russian men who fled to escape the draft as well, generally to countries in Western Asia rather than in Europe. But they had better reasons to leave then most.

            • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
              20·
              11 months ago

              Really?

              Indeed. He’s the director of a Russian foundation, teaches at a Russian university, and is being legally bullied by Russia, as you can see from my three-sentence summary. I’m pretty sure you can’t do all that from Portugal or something.

              I think he very much should have thought of himself as one. His mistake.

              He should’ve thought of himself as not currently able to travel to Russia?

              Ok, lol.