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July 25: Vladimir Medeyko (User:Drbug), the former head of Wikimedia Russia and founder of the Russian government-approved Ruwiki fork, has been globally banned by WMF. Medeyko had previously been blocked indefinitely on the Russian Wikipedia,[3] following a discussion at the Russian Wikipedia's Administrators' Noticeboard, as well as on Commons (July 3), where the reason given was "Long-term abuse: creating a Wikipedia fork which includes stolen content from Commons as well"[4]
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