RuWiki launches Nuremberg Trials section with 60 encyclopedia articles
In short
The Russian internet encyclopedia RuWiki has launched a thematic section titled “Nuremberg Trials”, containing 60 encyclopedic articles, the company said. The launch was timed to the anniversary of the International Military Tribunal’s verdict against senior Nazi leaders, which CNews said was pronounced on 30 September – 1 October 1946. Kommersant reported that 24 of the articles have passed expert review at the Russian Academy of Sciences and 36 are still under review.
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The Russian internet encyclopedia RuWiki has launched a thematic section titled “Nuremberg Trials”, the company’s representatives said, according to the tech outlet CNews. The section contains 60 encyclopedic articles, CNews, the state news agency TASS and the business daily Kommersant all reported. CNews said the section was launched on the portal “Chronicle of Losses”, and that the launch was timed to the anniversary of the International Military Tribunal’s verdict against the main Nazi defendants, which it said was pronounced on 30 September – 1 October 1946. Kommersant described the occasion as the 80th anniversary of the verdict. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
According to CNews and Kommersant, the articles cover the Nuremberg Trials themselves, the later court proceedings against Nazi criminals, the defendants, the organizations ruled criminal, and the judges and prosecutors. Both outlets said particular attention is given to material on Nazi Germany’s crimes against the population of the Soviet Union. CNews said evidence presented to the international tribunal included the mass killing of Soviet civilians, the killing of prisoners of war and the forcible removal of Soviet citizens for forced labour, and that the Soviet side used documents of the Extraordinary State Commission showing the organized character of the crimes against Soviet citizens. [ 1 , 3 ]
Kommersant reported that 24 of the section’s articles have already passed expert review at the Russian Academy of Sciences, while 36 are still under review. RuWiki general director Vladimir Medeiko said, in remarks carried by both CNews and Kommersant, that the Nuremberg Trials are “not only the most important page of world history, but also a huge body of documentary evidence of the crimes of Nazism”, and that it was important for the encyclopedia to make the material understandable and accessible to a wide audience on the basis of historical sources, archival documents and expert assessment. [ 1 , 3 ]
Why it matters
The launch adds a curated, expert-reviewed block of historical material on the Nuremberg Trials to a Russian online encyclopedia, at a time when documents on Nazi crimes against the Soviet population are presented as a distinct subject. Because two of the three outlets are state or business media carrying the company’s own framing, the coverage shows how a domestic tech product is presented to a Russian audience, with limited relevance beyond it.
Key facts
- RuWiki, a Russian internet encyclopedia, launched a thematic section called “Nuremberg Trials”. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- The section contains 60 encyclopedic articles. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- The launch was timed to the anniversary of the International Military Tribunal’s verdict against senior Nazi leaders; CNews said the verdict was announced on 30 September – 1 October 1946, and Kommersant described the occasion as the 80th anniversary. [ 1 , 3 ]
- The articles cover the Nuremberg Trials, later trials of Nazi criminals, the defendants, organizations ruled criminal, and the judges and prosecutors. [ 1 , 3 ]
- Separate attention is given to material on Nazi Germany’s crimes against the population of the Soviet Union, including evidence of the mass killing of Soviet civilians, the killing of prisoners of war and the forcible removal of Soviet citizens for forced labour, based partly on documents of the Extraordinary State Commission. [ 1 , 3 ]
- Kommersant reported that 24 articles in the section have passed expert review at the Russian Academy of Sciences, with 36 still under review. [ 3 ]
- RuWiki general director Vladimir Medeiko said the aim was to make the trial materials understandable and accessible to a wide audience, drawing on historical sources, archival documents and expert assessment. [ 1 , 3 ]
- CNews said the section was launched on the portal “Chronicle of Losses”. [ 1 ]
Confirmed by several sources
Still unclear
- Where the section was launched or where RuWiki is based. The documents name no city or venue for the launch.
- The exact date the section went live. CNews says the launch was timed to the anniversary of the verdict, but none of the documents gives a specific launch date.
- The review status of the remaining 36 articles. Only Kommersant reported the 24 reviewed and 36 pending figures; no other document confirms them.
What local media are saying
Timeline, local time
- CNews publishes its report on the RuWiki section, quoting the company’s general director. [ 1 ]
- TASS publishes a short item saying the section includes 60 encyclopedic articles. [ 2 ]
- Kommersant reports the launch, the 80th-anniversary framing and that 24 articles have passed review at the Russian Academy of Sciences while 36 are under review. [ 3 ]