1. We move RU from the official branches lists on the main page and link pages to unofficial branches, remove their hub and move their content to the Others Hub.
At some point there will be a more detailed post from our licensing team, but as we've detailed here SCP-RU has some of its content labeled as CC-by-NC. All content which is derivative or related to the SCP Foundation and the surrounding universe is CC-by-SA.
These licenses are not compatible. Half of the branches have already delisted SCP-RU. Until the incorrectly labeled content is fixed we should not be linking to their site in an official capacity.
Previously to this, SCP-RU had been using the CC-by-NC license on their site. We had several of our community members discover this individually over the years and try to work with SCP-RU to fix the problem over the years, but this never went anywhere.
Then the SCP-RU administration asked the SCP-EN staff to enforce their incorrect license on people making YouTube videos. This alerted the entirety of the SCP-EN staff to this licensing problem.
This caused the issue to come to a head. Since we have been enforcing the license of the SCP Foundation to make sure online shops and content creators are correctly attributing their materials, we were obligated to take immediate action or risk losing the legitimacy to enforce our license entirely.
SCP-RU has almost solved the problem. They have fixed the license of their site, and not allowed for any future content to use the CC-by-NC license. However, they seem to be unsure about changing the license on the older material. What needs to be done is for the license to be corrected, not changed, since all of the content was always CC-by-SA.
I don't think we need to delete their hub, we can blank it and restore the content once the SCP-RU no longer has license violations, whenever that may be.