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Weekly observatory digest · auto-generated

Week 2026-W38 · Russia

Sep 14 – Sep 20 (UTC, Monday to Sunday)· Data through Sep 20· Generated

No national outage was recorded in Russia this week; the largest rise in OONI anomaly rate was GitHub (+4.8%); Tor bridge users averaged 89,722 a day (+2,940 on last week); Red Shield VPN led the tool ranking.

214 tests recorded this week

IODA · Cloudflare Radar

Outages and anomalies

National outages and traffic anomalies that started or were still running this week.

No national outage was recorded this week.

Data source: IODA (Georgia Tech) (public API)Cloudflare Radar (Cloudflare data terms)last sync

OONI · web_connectivity

Website anomaly-rate movers

Anomaly rate per website measured by OONI probes this week, against last week, ordered by the size of the change.

WebsiteThis weekLast weekChangeSamples
GitHub6%1%+4.8%937
Discord73%77%−4.2%6,163
X78%82%−3.8%6,346
ChatGPT6%9%−2.6%419
Wikipedia2%1%+1.5%291
YouTube55%56%−0.7%11,449
Facebook76%75%+0.5%13,174
Google1%1%+0.3%363
Instagram75%75%+0.2%13,170
Telegram Web—67%—0

Data source: OONI (CC BY-SA 4.0)last sync

OONI · proxy tool tests

Proxy tool success rate

How often OONI probes reached each tool this week, against last week.

ToolThis weekLast weekChangeSamples
Tor2%2%−0.4%10,839
Tor Snowflake29%39%−10%241
Psiphon19%22%−3.5%18,450
RiseupVPN100%100%±0%71
STUN64%64%−0.6%111,032

Data source: OONI (CC BY-SA 4.0)last sync

Tor Metrics

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.

Daily mean, this week89,722+2,940
Daily mean, last week86,782
Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks
07-27Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks09-20
Global transports (daily mean)
  • obfs4102,996
  • snowflake92,630
  • webtunnel33,678

Data source: Tor Metrics (CC0)last sync

Cloudflare Radar · IQI

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.

  • Bandwidth10.8Mbps(+0.3)Last week: 10.4 Mbps
  • Latency65ms(−2)Last week: 66 ms
  • DNS resolution76ms(+0)Last week: 76 ms

Data source: Cloudflare Radar (Cloudflare data terms)last sync

Tool ranking · 60-day medians

Top 10 tools

60-day median ranking as of this week (services only); arrows show the move from last week.

RankToolMedian speedvs last week
1Red Shield VPN3.03 MB/s=
2hidemy.name VPN2.76 MB/s▲ 4
3FreeBrowser2.96 MB/s=
4Amnezia2.25 MB/s▼ 2
5NordVPN1.81 MB/snew
6DarkPrince VPN3.30 MB/s▼ 1
7AdGuard VPN1.23 MB/s▲ 1
8GreatFireVPN2.38 MB/s▲ 1
9Browsec VPN2.55 MB/s▼ 5
10Hiddify3.56 MB/s▼ 3

From the GreatFire ranking snapshot of Sep 20

New in the top 10: NordVPN

Out of the top 10: Incy