While speaking at a meeting of the Russian Language Council at the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed to replace the online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia with a Russian version.
"It's better to replace it with the Big Russian new encyclopaedia in electronic form…here it will be in any case, reliable information in a good modern form," the RIA Novosti news agency reported Putin saying.
The Kremlin announced in September in a draft law that it plans to spend ₽1.7 billion for the creation of the Russian version of the online Wikipedia during the years 2020-2022.
The publishing house which publishes the paper copy of the Russian Encyclopaedia will also create the electronic version.
Putin's statement follows a day after a new law came into effect, which says that Russian authorities can disconnect its internet from the rest of the world's - forming a nationwide intranet.
The country also plans to create an independent Russian Domain Name System (DNS) in 2021. This will mean that the Russian government would have control over which sites users are directed to.
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