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“Russia has replaced Wikipedia with a state-sponsored encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Russian Wikipedia but which conveniently has been edited to omit things that could cast the Russian government in poor light. Real Russian Wikipedia editors used to refer to the real Wikipedia as Ruwiki; the new one is called Ruviki, has ‘ruwiki’ in its url, and has copied all Russian-language Wikipedia articles and strictly edited them to comply with Russian laws.” —
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