# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-09-07
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 89%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 20
- Anomaly Rate: 98.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 452/549 measurements anomalous (82.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 306/398 measurements anomalous (76.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 318/387 measurements anomalous (82.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 296/588 measurements anomalous (50.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 371/383 measurements anomalous (96.9%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 492/586 measurements anomalous (84.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 300/413 measurements anomalous (72.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 79%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 331/399 measurements anomalous (83.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 340/673 measurements anomalous (50.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 398/406 measurements anomalous (98.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 453/530 measurements anomalous (85.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 309/398 measurements anomalous (77.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 316/374 measurements anomalous (84.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 313/610 measurements anomalous (51.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 387/396 measurements anomalous (97.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 451/518 measurements anomalous (87.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 312/384 measurements anomalous (81.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 339/394 measurements anomalous (86.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 289/573 measurements anomalous (50.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 374/385 measurements anomalous (97.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-07&until=2026-09-08&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 118/175 probes blocked (67.4%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 129/175 probes blocked (73.7%) for chatgpt.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 118/175 probes blocked (67.4%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 121/175 probes blocked (69.1%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 118/175 probes blocked (67.4%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 129/175 probes blocked (73.7%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-07
  - 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-2026-3085]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3085

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-25*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3085*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3085*