# Censorship detected in RU

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-09-14
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements: 18
- Anomaly Rate: 98.8%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 455/570 measurements anomalous (79.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 337/435 measurements anomalous (77.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 337/418 measurements anomalous (80.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 378/385 measurements anomalous (98.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 546/662 measurements anomalous (82.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 349/459 measurements anomalous (76.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 335/413 measurements anomalous (81.1%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 401/759 measurements anomalous (52.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 398/405 measurements anomalous (98.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 489/580 measurements anomalous (84.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 297/394 measurements anomalous (75.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 292/366 measurements anomalous (79.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 349/665 measurements anomalous (52.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 331/335 measurements anomalous (98.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 441/516 measurements anomalous (85.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 327/407 measurements anomalous (80.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 337/400 measurements anomalous (84.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 381/388 measurements anomalous (98.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-14&until=2026-09-15&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (tcp-reset): 125/172 probes blocked (72.7%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 125/172 probes blocked (72.7%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 125/171 probes blocked (73.1%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 122/171 probes blocked (71.3%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 86%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 124/171 probes blocked (72.5%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-14
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [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.
- **A confirmed duration** — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- **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-2026-3102]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3102

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-09-18*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3102*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3102*