# Sustained censorship in RU (2026-01)

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-01-01
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 92.1% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 75%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 3
- Anomaly Rate: 92.1%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): Ongoing censorship regime
  - Observed: 2026-01-03
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&since=2026-01-03&until=2026-01-04)
- **OONI** (measurement): Ongoing censorship regime
  - Observed: 2026-01-02
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&since=2026-01-02&until=2026-01-03)
- **OONI** (measurement): Ongoing censorship regime
  - Observed: 2026-01-01
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&since=2026-01-01&until=2026-01-02)

## 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** — fewer than two source labels appear in qualifying linked evidence; stored incident source labels may include quarantined OONI observations.

## Data Sources

ooni

These source labels come from qualifying linked evidence. Historical incident source labels and quarantined observations are excluded; multiple labels alone do not establish independent corroboration.

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Sustained censorship in RU (2026-01) [RU-2026-0010]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-0010

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-11-05*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-0010*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-0010*