Russia replaced Wikipedia with a government encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Wikipedia, but modified to omit things that could hurt the Russian government.
The real Russian Wikipedia editors used to refer to the real Wikipedia (Wikipedia.ru) as Ruwiki. So the clone is called Ruviki, has “ruwiki” in the url and has copied all the Wikipedia articles in the Russian language. But he heavily edited them to comply with Russian laws. The new articles exclude references to “foreign agents,” any reference to the Russian government or any person or entity expressing opinions about the government and supported, financially or otherwise, by a foreign nation. [...]
Wikimedia RU, the Russian-language encyclopedia of the non-profit organization Wikipedia, was forced to close at the end of 2023 amid political pressure due to the war in Ukraine.
Vladimir Medeyko, the former department head who now runs Ruviki, told Novaya Gazeta Europe in July that he believed Wikipedia had problems with "reliability and neutrality".
Medeyko first announced the project to copy and censor Wikipedia's 1,9 million Russian-language articles in June. The goal, he said at the time, was to edit them so that the information was a "reliable" source for all Russian users.
Independent newspaper Bumaga reported in August that about 110 articles on the war in Ukraine were missing entirely, while others had been heavily edited. Ruviki also blocks articles with references to torture in prisons and scandals involving representatives of the Russian government.