Russia - Has Russia gone so far as to block Wikipedia?

The entire Wikipedia website may have been blocked in Russia for the absurd reason that a government agency objected to a single entry about a type of cannabis from India. The authorities ordered Internet Service Providers block access to the online collaborative encyclopaedia today at the request of the Russian telecommunications surveillance agency Roskomnadzor. The agency ordered the blocking following a 25 June ruling by a court in Chenrny Yar, a town near Astrakhan (a city 1,200 km (...)

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