What the hell?
Edit - Quoting @Allero@lemmy.today
Wikipedia is not currently banned in Russia. But the Russian branch of Wikimedia as an organization is. Also, pretty much nobody in Russia uses Ruwiki, everyone keeps using Wikipedia.
That’s all not to say it isn’t a troubling development, though. But Russians are more likely to access Wikipedia through VPN than to rely on Ruwiki. The game’s not lost.
More Putin pulling from the neoconservative playbook.
The hyper-chauvanist white nationalism that became politically mainstream after the collapse of the USSR was as much a creature of American right-wing propaganda in Russia as it was a native beast.
Just like how Henry Ford swamped Germany with antisemitic rhetoric by way of his “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” during the 1910s, conservative mass media blanketed Eastern Europe and Russia during the 90s/00s.
And oh hey look. History repeats itself.