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Incident record · Russia

Sustained censorship in RU (2023-12)

Type
censorship
Status
confirmed
Severity
critical
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Source summary

OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 97.2% anomaly rate.

Open incident JSON
Reported anomaly rate
97.2%

Source-defined signal; not a universal test-failure percentage.

Source measurement count
3

The record’s count can represent aggregate inputs or alerts.

Incident confidence
75%

A source score, not certainty of intentional censorship.

Linked evidence has its own count and confidence fields. These quantities are not interchangeable.

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3 linked records.

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Linked observation dates

3 dated · 0 without a verified timezone
OONI3 linked records
Dec 29, 2023 · 00:00 UTCDec 31, 2023 · 00:00 UTC

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Upstream claims are attributed to their source. Multiple records or source names do not by themselves establish independent corroboration.

OONI3 records · open evidence

block · critical

ooni:daily:RU:2023-12-31

Continued VPN/social media crackdown

Upstream claim · OONI
Signal value
0.977064
Signal baseline
0.03
Evidence confidence
86.4%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: OONI elevated signal in same country/month

Retrieved
2026-02-06 14:41:59.658666 · timezone unspecified
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.8634999999999999,
  "continent": "Europe",
  "countryCode": "RU",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 8663,
  "kind": "measurement",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "OONI elevated signal in same country/month",
  "observedAt": "2023-12-31T00:00:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-02-06T14:41:59.658666",
  "riskTier": 2,
  "signalBaseline": 0.03,
  "signalLevel": "critical",
  "signalType": "block",
  "signalValue": 0.9770642201834863,
  "source": "ooni",
  "sourceRef": "ooni:daily:RU:2023-12-31",
  "sourceUrl": "https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&since=2023-12-31&until=2024-01-01",
  "unSubregion": "Eastern Europe",
  "upstreamCause": "Continued VPN/social media crackdown",
  "upstreamClaim": "Continued VPN/social media crackdown",
  "upstreamSeverity": null
}

block · critical

ooni:daily:RU:2023-12-30

Continued VPN/social media crackdown

Upstream claim · OONI
Signal value
0.982166
Signal baseline
0.03
Evidence confidence
89.6%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: OONI elevated signal in same country/month

Retrieved
2026-02-06 14:41:59.658666 · timezone unspecified
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.89625,
  "continent": "Europe",
  "countryCode": "RU",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 8662,
  "kind": "measurement",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "OONI elevated signal in same country/month",
  "observedAt": "2023-12-30T00:00:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-02-06T14:41:59.658666",
  "riskTier": 2,
  "signalBaseline": 0.03,
  "signalLevel": "critical",
  "signalType": "block",
  "signalValue": 0.9821656050955414,
  "source": "ooni",
  "sourceRef": "ooni:daily:RU:2023-12-30",
  "sourceUrl": "https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&since=2023-12-30&until=2023-12-31",
  "unSubregion": "Eastern Europe",
  "upstreamCause": "Continued VPN/social media crackdown",
  "upstreamClaim": "Continued VPN/social media crackdown",
  "upstreamSeverity": null
}

block · critical

ooni:daily:RU:2023-12-29

Continued VPN/social media crackdown

Upstream claim · OONI
Signal value
0.956464
Signal baseline
0.03
Evidence confidence
88.9%
Link confidence
80%

Why it is linked: OONI elevated signal in same country/month

Retrieved
2026-02-06 14:41:59.658666 · timezone unspecified
Open upstream source
Complete evidence record
{
  "asn": null,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.8895,
  "continent": "Europe",
  "countryCode": "RU",
  "domain": null,
  "domainCategory": null,
  "id": 8661,
  "kind": "measurement",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "OONI elevated signal in same country/month",
  "observedAt": "2023-12-29T00:00:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-02-06T14:41:59.658666",
  "riskTier": 2,
  "signalBaseline": 0.03,
  "signalLevel": "critical",
  "signalType": "block",
  "signalValue": 0.9564643799472295,
  "source": "ooni",
  "sourceRef": "ooni:daily:RU:2023-12-29",
  "sourceUrl": "https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=RU&since=2023-12-29&until=2023-12-30",
  "unSubregion": "Eastern Europe",
  "upstreamCause": "Continued VPN/social media crackdown",
  "upstreamClaim": "Continued VPN/social media crackdown",
  "upstreamSeverity": null
}
Source-reported corroboration

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{
  "description": "Single source: ooni",
  "evidenceCount": 3,
  "level": "low",
  "score": 0.65,
  "sourceCount": 1,
  "sources": [
    "ooni"
  ]
}

Declared incident sources: OONI.

This record does not list two distinct sources. Treat it as a single-source or uncorroborated record.

Scope and attribution

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Methodology

Affected services

No services named.

Incident mechanism

No mechanism specified at the incident level.

Individual evidence may carry more specific methods. Those do not automatically describe the entire incident.

Affected domains · 0

Domains named by the source record. Each link opens country-specific OONI measurements; a named domain is not a blanket national-block verdict.

No domains named.

Networks and evidence attribution

ASNs named by this source record: None listed.

This aggregate describes fields literally present in linked evidence. It does not identify who caused an event or prove intent.

{
  "asns_attributed": 0,
  "domains_attributed": 0,
  "methods": [
    {
      "evidence_count": 3,
      "method": "block"
    }
  ],
  "note": "Aggregated from this incident's linked evidence rows — only domains, ASNs, and blocking methods the evidence literally records are shown, with the per-item evidence count. No per-domain/per-ASN attribution is present in the linked evidence for this incident (e.g. country/ASN-level outage signals).",
  "sources": [
    "ooni"
  ],
  "top_asns": [],
  "top_domains": []
}
What this record cannot establish

Measurements alone do not attribute an event to a government, ISP or another actor, and do not establish intent. An outage or anomalous result can have several explanations.

The country label is an aggregation scope. It is not a census of every network, city or service. Regional or ASN fields belong to their individual source evidence and should not be expanded into a national claim.

The source observation window and evidence timestamps do not prove an exact start and stop of blocking.

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Created
2026-02-06 14:41:59.711235 · timezone unspecified
Last updated
2026-02-06 14:41:59.711235 · timezone unspecified
Revision
1
Revision history and original fields

Revision-history array unavailable.

Canonical ID: RU-2023-0006. Source ID: RU-2023-0006. Hash ID: 8a5d97b861ac.

Additional source duration field: 48 hours. It is retained separately from the minutes field and does not establish a verified event duration.

Complete source JSON
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  "affectedServices": [],
  "anomalyRate": 0.9718980684087525,
  "attribution": {
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        "method": "block"
      }
    ],
    "note": "Aggregated from this incident's linked evidence rows — only domains, ASNs, and blocking methods the evidence literally records are shown, with the per-item evidence count. No per-domain/per-ASN attribution is present in the linked evidence for this incident (e.g. country/ASN-level outage signals).",
    "sources": [
      "ooni"
    ],
    "top_asns": [],
    "top_domains": []
  },
  "confidence": 0.75,
  "corroboration": {
    "description": "Single source: ooni",
    "evidenceCount": 3,
    "level": "low",
    "score": 0.65,
    "sourceCount": 1,
    "sources": [
      "ooni"
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  },
  "country": "RU",
  "countryName": "Russia",
  "createdAt": "2026-02-06T14:41:59.711235",
  "description": "OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 97.2% anomaly rate.",
  "duration": 2880,
  "durationHours": 48,
  "endTime": "2023-12-31T00:00:00Z",
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      "linkConfidence": 0.8,
      "linkReason": "OONI elevated signal in same country/month",
      "observedAt": "2023-12-31T00:00:00Z",
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