# Internet censorship detected in Russia

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-06-25
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

CenAlert detected interference. Impact: 0.7. Reported by: HTTP blocking (timeout): 120/169 probes blocked (71.0%) for bbc.com.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 65%
- Measurements: 1
- Anomaly Rate: 0.7%

## Evidence

- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 120/169 probes blocked (71.0%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-06-25
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 114/168 probes blocked (67.9%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-06-25
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 115/168 probes blocked (68.5%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-06-25
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 113/167 probes blocked (67.7%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-06-25
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 115/167 probes blocked (68.9%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-06-25
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)

## 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.
- **The mechanism** — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- **A confirmed duration** — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- **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

censoredplanet

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Internet censorship detected in Russia [RU-2026-0865]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-0865

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-06-29*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-0865*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-0865*