Stanislav Kozlovsky

Stanislav Kozlovsky
Date: 12/19/2023
Type of violation: forced resignation
Institution: Lomonosov Moscow State University

Summary: The Psychology Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University forced associate professor Stanislav Kozlovsky to resign. According to Kozlovsky, the management expects the Ministry of Justice to recognize him as a foreign agent on Friday (12/22/2023). The probable reason is his leadership of the Wikimedia.Ru project

Details: Stanislav Kozlovsky leads the Wikimedia.Ru project, the Russian legal entity of Wikipedia. At a company meeting, Kozlovsky told a story about being fired from the university, after which the employees decided to close the organization: “Yesterday, at the faculty dean’s office, they told me that there was reliable information that the Ministry of Justice would recognize me as a foreign agent next Friday. They put two papers in front of me — an order dismissing me under the article “for absenteeism” and a statement “of my own free will.” I chose the latter.”

“Wikimedia.Ru” has begun the liquidation process. Kozlovsky added that the liquidation of a legal entity does not mean the closure of “Wikipedia” itself — if it is not blocked in Russia, volunteers will continue to write articles.

On February 2, 2024 the head of Wikimedia.Ru (the Russian-language Wikipedia) Stanislav Kozlovsky was declared a “foreign agent”. He was fired from Moscow State University in advance due to suspicions that he would be declared a “foreign agent”.

Source: Wikipedia.Forum, Radio Liberty.

19 December 2023

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