Ministry of defense of Ukraine captured Ilya Muromets – Russian Newspaper

Military Department of Ukraine conducted a covert operation by changing the birthplace of the epic hero Ilya Muromets in the Russian “Wikipedia”, and thus making him a Ukrainian. About the historic victory, it became known casually: changes in the network encyclopedia is reflected in social networks, and hastened to inform the world of Ukrainian media.

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As it turned out, employees of the Ukrainian state structures actively involved in the so-called “edit wars” – changes to encyclopedic articles, and the journal of the fighting is conducted on the page “Derridian” (Coreduction) on Twitter. Article about Ilya Muromets in the Russian version of Wikipedia they changed half a dozen times, and finally achieved that in the section on place of birth of the hero instead of “Karacharovo village under Murom, Vladimir region, Russia” appeared the entry “Moore village, Kozelets district, Chernihiv region, Ukraine”.

However, to enjoy the virtual victory of the Ukrainian military could not for long: today, the administrators of Russian Wikipedia returned by a previous version of the article, and asked users from Kiev to provide accurate and irrefutable historical sources. But the mention of the village of Moore as a place of birth place of exile, the article still remained, but with the ironic caveat: “particularly popular this version was in the works of contemporary Ukrainian historians”.

note, this is not the first foray Ukrainian Amateur historians on the Russian version of “Wikipedia”. So, the dispute Ukrainian and Russian linguists about how all the same correctly to write “in Ukraine or in Ukraine”, begun almost from the inception of Wikipedia. The siege, like the one that had the Crimea punitive battalions have survived and the article about Crimea. Finally, articles about the famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, and Stepan Bandera, the SS division “Galicia” and other personalities and events were simply closed for corrections to the Russian administrators. But his understanding of the history of Ukrainian users were able to Express in their own, sovereign and, most importantly, the Ukrainian-language version of Wikipedia.

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the Story of Ilya Muromets, perhaps, would have attracted more attention because of “edit wars” in online encyclopedias are constantly the rules of their compilation involve a reasoned debate. And associated with Ukraine the article is already far not the busiest battlefield – Amateur historians and experts of various profile with no less enthusiasm for years to break spears around Karabakh and the Balkans, Civil war history, psychology, religion, and other topics.

more importantly, what to do with the raids on the Russian “Wikipedia” involved civil servants. If you believe the “Gorelektrosetey”, the greatest activity is in addition to ukranskogo defense shown by the staff of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada, Cabinet of Ministers and the State service for special communication and information protection. At the same time, Ukrainians they are doing all Slavic heroes: in addition to Ilya Muromets Ukraine moved and Nikita Kozhemyaka, an undoubted native of what is now Belarus. Another tactic of the Ukrainian network of fighters is “ideological” change wording: not “belonged to the Russian Empire”, and “was occupied,” etc.

it Seems that Ukrainian civil servants so closely and bored within her, though “independence”, but rarely visited Russian-speaking users of Wikipedia that they or on orders over begin to “edit wars” on foreign soil.

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shows the newest Ukrainian history, this deep national systems affect the thinking and actions of local rulers after 1991, this was clearly demonstrated in the recent statements of former President Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainians recorded in the Tchaikovsky, Repin and Dostoyevsky.

However, even such a character as Yushchenko sometimes visit a wise idea. So, yesterday, he said in a broadcast on Ukrainian television that the Ukrainians live in isolation, commenting on the legislative activity of the Verkhovna Rada of forced Ukrainization. “In fact, in our lives less and less Ukrainian. Ukrainians live as if in a reservation, where us quotas, the Ukrainian song, now will be the quota of the Ukrainian language, quotas on Ukrainian air. I don’t like it,” said Yushchenko. And from this point of view, the activity of Ukrainian officials in the Russian “Wikipedia” can be considered an attempt to escape from the reservation, where they have painted themselves and the country.