Users with the IP addresses of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation rewrite English-language articles about the Donbass

on 17 and 18 November in articles about the Donbass and the armed conflict in the East of Ukraine in the English section of Wikipedia made a number of edits prorossiyskie of effect. On biased anonymous edits drew the attention of the moderators of the English Wikipedia, notifying Twitter. Attempt distortion data can be checked by any person having, for example, the editing history of the article Donets Basin.

Unregistered users have corrected the definition and the name of the conflicting parties. So "the Russian occupation troops" were corrected to "local militias". In particular, it is "local insurgents" (local militia) were specified by the organizers of the unrecognized referendum on 2 November.

In addition, "the invasion of armed groups from Russia" was corrected to "the beginning of the civil war in Ukraine". At the moment the moderators English Wikipedia abolished these changes, but they are still visible in the edit history.

A block of IP addresses from which were made the edits (194.85.30.0 - 194.85.30.255 attached to the Research center of computer science of the Russian foreign Ministry. You can make sure by using a Whois service that specifies the owner of the IP address.

Recall, this is not the first attempts of the Russian government to distort the facts in Wikipedia. Previously anonymous from Russian IP addresses attributed Ukrainian military bombardment of Slavyansk phosphorous bombs and tried to shift the responsibility for downed Malaysian Boeing Ukrainian security forces. A year earlier in the Russian Wikipedia has no article "Kyivska Rus" - it was renamed "Old state".

Source: http://biz.liga.net/