# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-09-05
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements: 20
- Anomaly Rate: 99.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 466/539 measurements anomalous (86.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 323/382 measurements anomalous (84.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 346/383 measurements anomalous (90.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 322/588 measurements anomalous (54.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 72%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 382/393 measurements anomalous (97.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 506/577 measurements anomalous (87.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 356/415 measurements anomalous (85.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 358/398 measurements anomalous (89.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 334/654 measurements anomalous (51.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 384/389 measurements anomalous (98.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 517/580 measurements anomalous (89.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 342/414 measurements anomalous (82.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 343/393 measurements anomalous (87.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 362/655 measurements anomalous (55.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 72%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 404/408 measurements anomalous (99.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 449/523 measurements anomalous (85.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 340/408 measurements anomalous (83.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 352/406 measurements anomalous (86.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 312/601 measurements anomalous (51.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 391/399 measurements anomalous (98.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-05
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-05&until=2026-09-06&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** — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.

## Data Sources

ooni

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Censorship detected in RU [RU-2026-3079]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3079

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-09-06*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3079*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3079*