Russian service delists Wikipedia page from forbidden register
MOSCOW, Aug 25 (PRIME) -- The Russian communications service has delisted a Wikipedia Web page on preparation of a drug-containing substance from the register of forbidden information, the authority said Tuesday in a statement.
“The decision of the Chyorny Yar court of the Astrakhan Region regarding the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has been fulfilled. The information, found by the court as banned, was edited,” the statement read.
“The article on the drug substance ‘charas’, which is now in Wikipedia, according to the expert decision of the Federal Drug Control Service, does not violate law.”
The communications service earlier received a notification from the court to block the Web page with the forbidden information. The whole encyclopedic resource was under a threat of being blocked as it uses the HTTPS protocol, which makes restriction of access to certain pages impossible.
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