# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-08-27
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 89%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 20
- Anomaly Rate: 98.6%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 453/530 measurements anomalous (85.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 316/392 measurements anomalous (80.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 330/384 measurements anomalous (85.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 311/600 measurements anomalous (51.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 370/384 measurements anomalous (96.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 454/554 measurements anomalous (81.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 315/403 measurements anomalous (78.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 326/391 measurements anomalous (83.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 352/642 measurements anomalous (54.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 72%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 393/409 measurements anomalous (96.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 411/507 measurements anomalous (81.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 289/391 measurements anomalous (73.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 320/377 measurements anomalous (84.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 334/596 measurements anomalous (56.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 72%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 359/384 measurements anomalous (93.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 378/443 measurements anomalous (85.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 297/359 measurements anomalous (82.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 299/349 measurements anomalous (85.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 278/510 measurements anomalous (54.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 72%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 341/346 measurements anomalous (98.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-27&until=2026-08-28&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 126/173 probes blocked (72.8%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 123/173 probes blocked (71.1%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 126/172 probes blocked (73.3%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 126/172 probes blocked (73.3%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 127/171 probes blocked (74.3%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-27
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](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.
- **Independent corroboration** — multiple qualifying evidence source labels do not establish target/time agreement or source independence.

## Data Sources

censoredplanet, 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). Censorship detected in RU [RU-2026-3058]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3058

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-22*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3058*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3058*