Roskomnadzor, Russia's media watchdog, confirmed it had lifted a momentary ban on Russia's Wikipedia over an entry on a form of hashish.
In a statement on Tuesday, Roskomnadzor said Wikipedia had complied with a court order and edited an entry about charas, an Indian form of hashish, according to The Guardian.
"The entry on the narcotic substance charas that is currently on Wikipedia, according to an expert conclusion of the federal drug control agency, does not breach legislation," it said in a statement.
According to Russian law, it is prohibited for any site to house content about drug use, suicide and any information that may incite hatred or dissension. In general, anything that "disturbs the peace".
"Unexpectedly, confirmation has arrived from Roskomnadzor that the entry on charas has been excluded from the register of banned sites," Wikimedia Russia executive director Stas Kozlovsky wrote on Twitter.
Under Russian law, an entire site can be blocked, even if the offending material is only on one page, if it is added to the banned register on a court order, according to Yahoo! News.
In June, a court in a small town in southern Russia had ruled that the Russian Wikipedia entry on charas contained banned information on the drug.
Roskomnadzor had said on Friday that Wikipedia had failed to comply with the ruling and warned that "the whole resource will be blocked".
Russian Wikipedia responded by posting an entry on how to get around an official blockage of the site. Its Twitter feed had said Monday: "Good morning, country! Possibly this is our last morning."
