Active Incident
Confirmed: ongoing censorship regime
Russia · January 1, 2025 · 367 days
OONI detected censorship pattern in Russia. Ongoing censorship regime. Anomaly rate: 100.0%
Evidence
100%
Anomaly Rate
444,192
Measurements
92%
Confidence
What This Means
100% of 444,192 network tests from Russia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 97+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score92% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJanuary 1, 2025
Corroborating Evidence (1066)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference1066 records
block
"Ongoing censorship regime"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.92
Jan 3, 2026
View source →block
"Ongoing censorship regime"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.92
Jan 2, 2026
View source →block
"Ongoing censorship regime"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.91
Jan 1, 2026
View source →block
"Ongoing censorship regime"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.92
Dec 31, 2025
View source →interference
"Web connectivity anomalies detected. 486 measurements with 92.0% anomaly rate."— OONI report
Signal value: 0.92
Dec 31, 2025
View source →+ 1061 more OONI records
What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this 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, an 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.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2025). Confirmed: ongoing censorship regime [RU-2025-0009]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2025-0009
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