Active Incident
Confirmed: historical blocking: RU 2023-12-29 to 2023-12-31
Russia · December 29, 2023 · 3 days
Backfilled from OONI historical archive. 3 anomalous day(s), 6 measurements, 97% anomaly rate. Signal types: block, interference. Signal levels: critical.
Evidence
97%
Anomaly Rate
6
Measurements
97%
Confidence
What This Means
97% of 6 network tests from Russia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 94+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni-historical-backfill
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score97% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeDecember 29, 2023
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. (2023). Confirmed: historical blocking: RU 2023-12-29 to 2023-12-31 [RU-2023-0009]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2023-0009