In Russia will create the equivalent of Wikipedia for 2 billion

The Russian Government will spend nearly 2 billion rubles on the development of a modified web version of "Great Russian encyclopedia". Release is scheduled for April 2022-th. In total, the project will allocate 1 989 304 400 rubles from the Federal budget. Funding will take place in three stages, and the largest tranche will be held in 2021 and will reach 833 529 700 rubles. Directly website development will be engaged in JSC "Scientific publishing house "Great Russian encyclopedia", and the concept of the project is an interdepartmental working group with participation of the Ministry of communications, Rospechat, the Ministry of education, Ministry of culture, Ministry of foreign Affairs, Federal state statistics service, the Federal registration service, Federal Agency of scientific organizations Russian Academy of Sciences. Not a competitor Wikipediafree Deputy head of the Federal Agency for press noted that the online version of the BDT will be largely scientific and educational portal and will not compete with Wikipedia. As notes "Interfax", the Russian government has called "utter nonsense" rumors about the closure of Wikipedia in Russia.