Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications will insert to the integrated registry of prohibited information 4 articles from the Internet-encyclopedia Wikipedia, which contain information about drugs – informed press service of Roskomnadzor (Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation) in Twitter.
“As the result of investigations the information in 4 articles on Wikipedia was declared prohibited. Notifications of amendment to the integrated registry of prohibited information were sent,” – said the message.
The fifth article about JWH-018 was not insert to the registry because prohibited information was deleted by administration.
Earlier Roskomnadzor has admitted information in 5 articles of Russian-language Wikipedia as prohibited because of facts about drugs in them.
The scandal connected with Wikipedia emerged because of article “Charas” in August recent year the article described a method of preparing drugs.
The resource became unavailable for series of users on August 24 in the evening. The article was edited, after what Roskomnadzor unblocked the resource.