# Sustained censorship in RU (2023-12)

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2023-12-29
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 97.2% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 75%
- Measurements: 3
- Anomaly Rate: 97.2%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): Continued VPN/social media crackdown
  - Observed: 2023-12-31
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&since=2023-12-31&until=2023-12-31)
- **OONI** (measurement): Continued VPN/social media crackdown
  - Observed: 2023-12-30
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&since=2023-12-30&until=2023-12-30)
- **OONI** (measurement): Continued VPN/social media crackdown
  - Observed: 2023-12-29
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&since=2023-12-29&until=2023-12-29)

## What we cannot say

- **Who caused it** — measurement data alone does not attribute the interference to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- **Intent** — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- **Which networks** — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- **The mechanism** — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- **Independent corroboration** — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.

## Data Sources

ooni

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Sustained censorship in RU (2023-12) [RU-2023-0006]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2023-0006

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-07-06*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2023-0006*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2023-0006*