# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-08-13
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 88%
- Measurements: 16
- Anomaly Rate: 96.1%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 483/581 measurements anomalous (83.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 329/388 measurements anomalous (84.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 333/385 measurements anomalous (86.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 367/382 measurements anomalous (96.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 537/677 measurements anomalous (79.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 361/447 measurements anomalous (80.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 380/429 measurements anomalous (88.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 390/414 measurements anomalous (94.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 508/619 measurements anomalous (82.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 359/434 measurements anomalous (82.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 364/412 measurements anomalous (88.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 380/406 measurements anomalous (93.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 431/534 measurements anomalous (80.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 333/400 measurements anomalous (83.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 339/389 measurements anomalous (87.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 361/377 measurements anomalous (95.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-13&until=2026-08-14&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 125/172 probes blocked (72.7%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 120/172 probes blocked (69.8%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 117/172 probes blocked (68.0%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 122/172 probes blocked (70.9%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 123/172 probes blocked (71.5%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-13
  - 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-2026-3019]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3019

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-06*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3019*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3019*