Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Russia (2022-02)
Russia · February 21, 2022 · 2 days
OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 72.4% anomaly rate.
Evidence
72%
Anomaly Rate
3
Measurements
75%
Confidence
What This Means
72% of 3 network tests from Russia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 69+ 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 Score75% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeFebruary 21, 2022
Corroborating Evidence (8)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference8 records
block
"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.74
Feb 28, 2022
View source →block
"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.74
Feb 27, 2022
View source →block
"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.77
Feb 26, 2022
View source →block
"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.76
Feb 25, 2022
View source →block
"Ukraine invasion - mass blocks"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.74
Feb 24, 2022
View source →+ 3 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. (2022). Confirmed: sustained censorship in Russia (2022-02) [RU-2022-0002]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/RU-2022-0002
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