"Wikimedia" is accused of extremism for placing appeal of "Voice of Beslan"

The "Wikimedia", which oversees the Russian-language section of the online library "Wikipedia", can be charged with extremism for placing the appeal of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan": "To everyone sympathizing the victims of Beslan terror act!", which is on the federal list of extremist materials.

The second material from the list found by the website employees themselves was the book "Doctrine of Fascism" by Benito Mussolini.

On October 1, the "Wikimedia" office was called from the division to combat extremism of the Moscow GUVD (City Interior Militia Department) and told that the division had received an application claiming that Russian "Wikimedia" was responsible for posting the texts from the federal list of extremist materials on the website. However, the materials were not specified.

As reported by Stanislav Kozlovskiy, administrator of the Russian section of "Wikipedia", there is no threat of stopping the website, because the servers and the management company are in Florida.

"We give freedom to add and edit materials; we simply cannot keep track of such a mass of incoming data," Mr Kozlovskiy said in his interview with the "Gazeta.Ru".