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Briefly: Stanislav Kozlovsky, the director of Russian Wikimedia project (which supports the Russian Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.), has been declared a "foreign agent" by Russia. He has been forced to resign from his job at the Moscow State University. Following the event, Russian Wikimedia has decided to dissolve itself.

English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2023-12-24%2FIn_focus

Russian: https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%A3

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[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

... unfortunate, but his own safety has to come first for him. Maybe just don't travel to Russia in the first place though.

[–] Astrealix@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

He's a Russian, can't have reasonably expected this lol

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Huh? He couldn't not travel to Russia, he's a Russian.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And the smart Russians are out of Russia and won't come back.

[–] astreus@lemmy.ml 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The privileged Russians, you mean. I know a few people in Russia, good people, that have no prospects of ever getting out.

Being able to pick a country to reside in is a privilege most people can't afford, and that's before you factor in only 5% of Russians can speak English and that's makes up 80% of the foreign language speakers in Russia and you've got yourself a very immobile population.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Not to mention all of Europe closed it's borders.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you misspelled "rich".

[–] sab@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

There's a lot of less resourceful russian men who fled to escape the draft as well, generally to countries in Western Asia rather than in Europe. But they had better reasons to leave then most.

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Quite a lot of Russians are not currently able to travel to Russia.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, and? It's completely obvious the person in question is not among those.

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

They also can't leave.