# Internet censorship detected in Russia

**Country:** 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)
**Date:** 2026-10-26
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** WARNING
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

CenAlert detected interference. Impact: 0.7. Reported by: HTTP blocking (timeout): 110/167 probes blocked (65.9%) for bbc.com.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 65%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 1
- Anomaly Rate: 0.7%

## Evidence

- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 110/167 probes blocked (65.9%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-10-26
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 120/166 probes blocked (72.3%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-10-26
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 124/166 probes blocked (74.7%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-10-26
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTP blocking (timeout): 119/166 probes blocked (71.7%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-10-26
  - 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.
- **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.
- **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.
- **Independent corroboration** — fewer than two source labels appear in qualifying linked evidence; stored incident source labels may include quarantined OONI observations.

## Data Sources

censoredplanet

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). Internet censorship detected in Russia [RU-2026-3198]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3198

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-29*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: RU-2026-3198*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-3198*