# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-08-06
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements: 16
- Anomaly Rate: 99.4%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 531/592 measurements anomalous (89.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 329/384 measurements anomalous (85.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 322/372 measurements anomalous (86.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 352/358 measurements anomalous (98.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 541/623 measurements anomalous (86.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 365/441 measurements anomalous (82.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 366/413 measurements anomalous (88.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 401/412 measurements anomalous (97.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 503/592 measurements anomalous (85.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 350/413 measurements anomalous (84.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 348/394 measurements anomalous (88.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 371/386 measurements anomalous (96.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 421/478 measurements anomalous (88.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 302/364 measurements anomalous (83.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 293/351 measurements anomalous (83.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 334/336 measurements anomalous (99.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-06&until=2026-08-07&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 118/172 probes blocked (68.6%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 120/171 probes blocked (70.2%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 117/171 probes blocked (68.4%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 121/170 probes blocked (71.2%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 112/163 probes blocked (68.7%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-06
  - 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.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.

## Data Sources

ooni, censoredplanet

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Censorship detected in RU [RU-2026-3002]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3002

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-04*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3002*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3002*