Week 2026-W34 · Russia
Aug 17 – Aug 23 (UTC, Monday to Sunday)· Data through Aug 23· Generated 09/11, 16:06 UTC
1 outages or anomalies were recorded in Russia this week; the largest rise in OONI anomaly rate was Discord (+11%); Tor bridge users averaged 91,786 a day (+1,597 on last week); Amnezia led the tool ranking.
206 visitor tests this week
Outages and anomalies
National outages and traffic anomalies that started or were still running this week.
- IODA (Georgia Tech) IODA (Georgia Tech) · 08/18, 17:20 UTC → 08/18, 17:55 UTC · critical · country · bgp · score 47
Data source：IODA (Georgia Tech)（public API）Cloudflare Radar（Cloudflare data terms）last sync
Website anomaly-rate movers
Anomaly rate per website measured by OONI probes this week, against last week, ordered by the size of the change.
| Website | This week | Last week | Change | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discord | 76% | 66% | +11% | 5,199 |
| X | 81% | 72% | +8.4% | 5,373 |
| ChatGPT | 16% | 8% | +8.0% | 318 |
| 78% | 81% | −3.3% | 9,932 | |
| YouTube | 57% | 54% | +2.6% | 9,090 |
| 76% | 78% | −1.5% | 10,022 | |
| Wikipedia | 2% | 0% | +1.3% | 224 |
| 1% | 2% | −0.8% | 287 | |
| GitHub | 2% | 1% | +0.7% | 749 |
| Telegram Web | — | — | — | 0 |
Data source：OONI（CC BY-SA 4.0）last sync
Circumvention tool success rate
How often OONI probes reached each tool this week, against last week.
| Tool | This week | Last week | Change | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tor | 3% | 4% | −1.1% | 10,063 |
| Tor Snowflake | 34% | 33% | +1.9% | 241 |
| Psiphon | 28% | 31% | −2.5% | 17,597 |
| RiseupVPN | 100% | 100% | ±0% | 79 |
| STUN | 65% | 62% | +2.7% | 44,476 |
Data source：OONI（CC BY-SA 4.0）last sync
Tor bridge users
Estimated daily Tor bridge users in this region: this week's mean against last week's, with the most used transports worldwide on the right.
- obfs4110,473
- snowflake55,259
- webtunnel31,227
Data source：Tor Metrics（CC0）last sync
Direct-connection quality (weekly mean)
Weekly mean bandwidth, latency and DNS resolution of direct connections to Cloudflare from this region; the difference from last week in brackets.
- Bandwidth10.4Mbps(+0.2)Last week: 10.2 Mbps
- Latency61ms(−2)Last week: 63 ms
- DNS resolution80ms(+12)Last week: 68 ms
Data source：Cloudflare Radar（Cloudflare data terms）last sync
Top 10 tools
60-day median ranking as of this week (services only); arrows show the move from last week.
| Rank | Tool | Median speed | vs last week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amnezia | 2.51 MB/s | ▲ 1 |
| 2 | FreeBrowser | 2.53 MB/s | ▼ 1 |
| 3 | DarkPrince VPN | 3.00 MB/s | ▲ 1 |
| 4 | hidemy.name VPN | 997.84 KB/s | new |
| 5 | GreatFireVPN | 2.05 MB/s | ＝ |
| 6 | Red Shield VPN | 1.03 MB/s | ＝ |
| 7 | Amnezia VPN Premium | 1.97 MB/s | ＝ |
| 8 | AdGuard VPN | 790.39 KB/s | new |
From test records through Aug 23 (no GreatFire snapshot that week)
New in the top 10: hidemy.name VPN; AdGuard VPN
Out of the top 10: HotspotShield