# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-09-01
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 89%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 18
- Anomaly Rate: 97.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 468/575 measurements anomalous (81.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 332/429 measurements anomalous (77.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 353/423 measurements anomalous (83.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 393/410 measurements anomalous (95.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 528/630 measurements anomalous (83.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 355/448 measurements anomalous (79.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 358/425 measurements anomalous (84.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 414/427 measurements anomalous (97.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 513/590 measurements anomalous (86.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 331/418 measurements anomalous (79.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 341/401 measurements anomalous (85.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 346/672 measurements anomalous (51.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 407/421 measurements anomalous (96.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 440/513 measurements anomalous (85.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 326/406 measurements anomalous (80.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 341/395 measurements anomalous (86.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 299/579 measurements anomalous (51.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 390/407 measurements anomalous (95.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-01
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-01&until=2026-09-02&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-2026-3069]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3069

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-12*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3069*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3069*