# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-09-03
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 88%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 19
- Anomaly Rate: 96.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 463/554 measurements anomalous (83.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 334/428 measurements anomalous (78.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 363/420 measurements anomalous (86.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 409/426 measurements anomalous (96.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 545/629 measurements anomalous (86.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 344/433 measurements anomalous (79.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 362/421 measurements anomalous (86.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 359/705 measurements anomalous (50.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 415/435 measurements anomalous (95.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 519/593 measurements anomalous (87.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 308/388 measurements anomalous (79.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 314/368 measurements anomalous (85.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 370/676 measurements anomalous (54.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 72%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 381/397 measurements anomalous (96.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 425/500 measurements anomalous (85.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 312/388 measurements anomalous (80.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 321/378 measurements anomalous (84.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 280/557 measurements anomalous (50.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 352/368 measurements anomalous (95.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 88%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-03&until=2026-09-04&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 129/175 probes blocked (73.7%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (tcp-reset): 128/173 probes blocked (74.0%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 125/173 probes blocked (72.3%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 126/173 probes blocked (72.8%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 129/173 probes blocked (74.6%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-03
  - 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-2026-3075]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3075

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-23*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3075*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3075*