# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-08-28
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 19
- Anomaly Rate: 98.9%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 476/562 measurements anomalous (84.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 323/404 measurements anomalous (80.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 349/399 measurements anomalous (87.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 379/391 measurements anomalous (96.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 479/585 measurements anomalous (81.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 315/418 measurements anomalous (75.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 336/402 measurements anomalous (83.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 347/648 measurements anomalous (53.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 381/400 measurements anomalous (95.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 490/586 measurements anomalous (83.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 333/435 measurements anomalous (76.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 351/422 measurements anomalous (83.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 387/685 measurements anomalous (56.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 73%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 402/428 measurements anomalous (93.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 414/473 measurements anomalous (87.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 309/383 measurements anomalous (80.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 306/357 measurements anomalous (85.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 280/556 measurements anomalous (50.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 351/355 measurements anomalous (98.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-28
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-28&until=2026-08-29&only=anomalies)

## 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.
- **Which networks** — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- **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** — fewer than two source labels appear in qualifying linked evidence; stored incident source labels may include quarantined OONI observations.

## Data Sources

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-2026-3061]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3061

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-25*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3061*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3061*