Censorship detected in Russia

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Incident record · Russia

Internet censorship detected in Russia

Type: censorship
Status: suspected
Severity: warning

Source summary

CenAlert detected interference. Impact: 0.5. Reported by: HTTP blocking (timeout): 43/86 probes blocked (50.0%) for medium.com.

Open incident JSON

Reported anomaly rate: 0.5%
Source measurement count: 1
Incident confidence: 65%

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1 linked records.

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Linked observation dates

1 dated · 0 without a verified timezone

Censored Planet1 linked record

Apr 23, 2026 · 00:00 UTCSingle observed timestamp

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

Censored Planet1 record · open evidence

http-blocking-timeout · elevated

censoredplanet:hyperquack:HTTP:RU:medium.com:2026-04-23

Apr 23, 2026 · 00:00 UTC

HTTP blocking (timeout): 43/86 probes blocked (50.0%) for medium.com
Upstream claim · Censored Planet

Signal value: 0.5
Signal baseline: Unavailable
Evidence confidence: 80%
Link confidence: 80%

Why it is linked: CenAlert event for same country and date range

Domain: medium.com
Retrieved: Apr 24, 2026 · 03:46 UTC

Open upstream source

Complete evidence record

{
  "asn": 43727,
  "blockingMethod": null,
  "confidence": 0.8,
  "continent": "Europe",
  "countryCode": "RU",
  "domain": "medium.com",
  "domainCategory": "NEWS",
  "id": 39559521,
  "kind": "http-probe",
  "linkConfidence": 0.8,
  "linkReason": "CenAlert event for same country and date range",
  "observedAt": "2026-04-23T00:00:00Z",
  "probeNodeId": null,
  "regionCode": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-04-24T03:46:54.664938Z",
  "riskTier": 2,
  "signalBaseline": null,
  "signalLevel": "elevated",
  "signalType": "http-blocking-timeout",
  "signalValue": 0.5,
  "source": "censoredplanet",
  "sourceRef": "censoredplanet:hyperquack:HTTP:RU:medium.com:2026-04-23",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.censoredplanet.org",
  "unSubregion": "Eastern Europe",
  "upstreamCause": null,
  "upstreamClaim": "HTTP blocking (timeout): 43/86 probes blocked (50.0%) for medium.com",
  "upstreamSeverity": null
}

Source-reported corroboration

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{
  "description": "Single source: censoredplanet",
  "evidenceCount": 1,
  "level": "low",
  "score": 0.6,
  "sourceCount": 1,
  "sources": [
    "censoredplanet"
  ]
}

Declared incident sources: Censored Planet.

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

Scope and attribution

What the record names.

Methodology

Affected services

Medium

Incident mechanism

Connection timeout / throttling

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

Affected domains · 1

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

medium.com

Networks and evidence attribution

ASNs named by this source record: AS43727.

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

{
  "asns_attributed": 1,
  "domains_attributed": 1,
  "methods": [
    {
      "evidence_count": 1,
      "method": "http-blocking-timeout"
    }
  ],
  "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.",
  "sources": [
    "censoredplanet"
  ],
  "top_asns": [
    {
      "asn": "AS43727",
      "evidence_count": 1
    }
  ],
  "top_domains": [
    {
      "domain": "medium.com",
      "evidence_count": 1
    }
  ]
}

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.

A confirmed duration is not supplied. The source observation window and evidence timestamps do not prove an exact start and stop of blocking.

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APA citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Internet censorship detected in Russia [RU-2026-0192]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2026-0192

The record over time.

Created: 2026-04-24 06:00:04.229179 · timezone unspecified
Last updated: Jun 9, 2026 · 21:43 UTC
Revision: 2

Revision history and original fields

Revision-history array unavailable.

Canonical ID: RU-2026-0192. Source ID: RU-2026-0192. Hash ID: 43ffebe1135c.

Additional source duration field: 0 hours. It is retained separately from the minutes field and does not establish a verified event duration.

Complete source JSON

{
  "affectedAsns": [
    "AS43727"
  ],
  "affectedDomains": [
    "medium.com"
  ],
  "affectedServices": [
    "Medium"
  ],
  "anomalyRate": 0.005,
  "attribution": {
    "asns_attributed": 1,
    "domains_attributed": 1,
    "methods": [
      {
        "evidence_count": 1,
        "method": "http-blocking-timeout"
      }
    ],
    "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.",
    "sources": [
      "censoredplanet"
    ],
    "top_asns": [
      {
        "asn": "AS43727",
        "evidence_count": 1
      }
    ],
    "top_domains": [
      {
        "domain": "medium.com",
        "evidence_count": 1
      }
    ]
  },
  "confidence": 0.65,
  "corroboration": {
    "description": "Single source: censoredplanet",
    "evidenceCount": 1,
    "level": "low",
    "score": 0.6,
    "sourceCount": 1,
    "sources": [
      "censoredplanet"
    ]
  },
  "country": "RU",
  "countryName": "Russia",
  "createdAt": "2026-04-24T06:00:04.229179",
  "description": "CenAlert detected interference. Impact: 0.5. Reported by: HTTP blocking (timeout): 43/86 probes blocked (50.0%) for medium.com.",
  "duration": null,
  "durationHours": 0,
  "endTime": null,
  "evidence": [
    {
      "asn": 43727,
      "blockingMethod": null,
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "continent": "Europe",
      "countryCode": "RU",
      "domain": "medium.com",
      "domainCategory": "NEWS",
      "id": 39559521,
      "kind": "http-probe",
      "linkConfidence": 0.8,
      "linkReason": "CenAlert event for same country and date range",
      "observedAt": "2026-04-23T00:00:00Z",
      "probeNodeId": null,
      "regionCode": null,
      "retrievedAt": "2026-04-24T03:46:54.664938Z",
      "riskTier": 2,
      "signalBaseline": null,
      "signalLevel": "elevated",
      "signalType": "http-blocking-timeout",
      "signalValue": 0.5,
      "source": "censoredplanet",
      "sourceRef": "censoredplanet:hyperquack:HTTP:RU:medium.com:2026-04-23",
      "sourceUrl": "https://data.censoredplanet.org",
      "unSubregion": "Eastern Europe",
      "upstreamCause": null,
      "upstreamClaim": "HTTP blocking (timeout): 43/86 probes blocked (50.0%) for medium.com",
      "upstreamSeverity": null
    }
  ],
  "evidenceCount": 1,
  "evidenceSourceBreakdown": {
    "censoredplanet": 1
  },
  "evidenceSpan": {
    "earliest": "2026-04-23T00:00:00Z",
    "latest": "2026-04-23T00:00:00Z"
  },
  "flag": "🇷🇺",
  "generated_at_utc": "2026-09-08T20:07:25.823624Z",
  "hashId": "43ffebe1135c",
  "id": "RU-2026-0192",
  "incidentType": "censorship",
  "measurementCount": 1,
  "mechanism": "Connection timeout / throttling",
  "readableId": "RU-2026-0192",
  "reportUrl": "https://api.voidly.ai/data/incidents/43ffebe1135c/report?format=markdown",
  "revision": 2,
  "severity": "warning",
  "severityGrade": "B",
  "sources": [
    "censoredplanet"
  ],
  "startTime": "2026-04-23T00:00:00Z",
  "status": "suspected",
  "title": "Internet censorship detected in Russia",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-09T21:43:06Z"
}

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