# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-08-31
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 89%
- Measurements: 19
- Anomaly Rate: 97.3%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 482/603 measurements anomalous (79.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 367/463 measurements anomalous (79.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 378/448 measurements anomalous (84.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 356/674 measurements anomalous (52.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 415/436 measurements anomalous (95.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 488/588 measurements anomalous (83.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 348/437 measurements anomalous (79.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 354/418 measurements anomalous (84.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 378/683 measurements anomalous (55.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 72%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 416/441 measurements anomalous (94.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 418/508 measurements anomalous (82.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 305/385 measurements anomalous (79.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 301/368 measurements anomalous (81.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 343/587 measurements anomalous (58.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 73%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 366/376 measurements anomalous (97.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 407/470 measurements anomalous (86.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 300/381 measurements anomalous (78.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 311/371 measurements anomalous (83.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 354/368 measurements anomalous (96.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-01&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 122/174 probes blocked (70.1%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 127/173 probes blocked (73.4%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 125/173 probes blocked (72.3%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 128/173 probes blocked (74.0%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 130/173 probes blocked (75.1%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-31
  - 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-2026-3066]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3066

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-09-22*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3066*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3066*