For many Russian Internet users with tonight's closed access to the online encyclopedia "Wikipedia". 5 minutes before midnight to unload Russian providers to block you added the link to the article in Wikipedia, as well as the website uses the https Protocol, then blocked all its full version.

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For many Russian Internet users with tonight's closed access to the online encyclopedia "Wikipedia". 5 minutes before midnight to unload Russian providers to block you added the link to the article in Wikipedia, as well as the website uses the https Protocol, then blocked all its full version.

Yesterday Roskomnadzor issued a decision to block encyclopedia article about drugs, which the court found unacceptable and illegal. Wikipedia refused to remove it, since most of the information was learned from authoritative sources, including the UN website.

About the inaccessibility of the encyclopedia is reported by users from different regions of Russia. However on the mobile version, they can still go, because it has a different IP address, transmits the Twitter account of "Russian Wikipedia".

Augmented. Roskomnadzor passed back

In Twitter account Stanislav Kozlovsky, Executive Director of the Foundation "Wikimedia RU", at 10:00 posted a message stating that he "suddenly received a notice of Roskomnadzor, the article "Cars" Wikipedia excluded from the Register of banned sites."