# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-08-17
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 89%
- Measurements: 16
- Anomaly Rate: 97.4%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 413/510 measurements anomalous (81.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 282/351 measurements anomalous (80.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 282/346 measurements anomalous (81.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 330/341 measurements anomalous (96.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 485/592 measurements anomalous (81.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 301/388 measurements anomalous (77.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 303/362 measurements anomalous (83.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 355/373 measurements anomalous (95.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 408/509 measurements anomalous (80.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 287/373 measurements anomalous (76.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 303/363 measurements anomalous (83.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 373/391 measurements anomalous (95.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 376/448 measurements anomalous (83.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 286/347 measurements anomalous (82.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 289/344 measurements anomalous (84.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 336/345 measurements anomalous (97.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-17&until=2026-08-18&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 124/171 probes blocked (72.5%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 124/169 probes blocked (73.4%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 126/169 probes blocked (74.6%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 127/169 probes blocked (75.1%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 128/169 probes blocked (75.7%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-17
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [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-2026-3029]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3029

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-06*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3029*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3029*