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Weekly observatory digest · auto-generated

Week 2026-W44 · Russia

Oct 26 – Nov 1 (UTC, Monday to Sunday)· Data through Nov 1· Generated

No national outage was recorded in Russia this week; the largest rise in OONI anomaly rate was ChatGPT (+3.9%); Tor bridge users averaged 202,149 a day (+101,964 on last week); Red Shield VPN led the tool ranking.

377 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
ChatGPT10%6%+3.9%524
Facebook80%78%+2.1%13,505
Instagram79%77%+2.1%13,394
Wikipedia1%3%−1.9%355
X66%67%−1.0%3,633
Discord54%55%−0.9%3,513
YouTube59%59%+0.7%12,034
GitHub3%3%−0.3%1,342
Google2%2%+0.1%483
Telegram Web100%100%±0%7

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%−0.2%11,217
Tor Snowflake25%32%−6.5%226
Psiphon24%20%+3.9%16,756
RiseupVPN100%100%±0%71
STUN57%59%−2.7%98,562

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 week202,149+101,964
Daily mean, last week100,184
Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks
09-07Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks10-29
Global transports (daily mean)
  • obfs4238,951
  • snowflake81,570
  • webtunnel73,973

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.

  • Bandwidth9.9Mbps(−0.6)Last week: 10.6 Mbps
  • Latency75ms(+6)Last week: 68 ms
  • DNS resolution82ms(−3)Last week: 85 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 VPN3.77 MB/s=
2hidemy.name VPN3.58 MB/s=
3Karing3.76 MB/snew
4SotaVpn2.93 MB/s▼ 1
5Князь ВПН2.96 MB/s▲ 2
6zapret11.86 MB/s▼ 1
7Amnezia2.80 MB/s▼ 3
8Hiddify3.23 MB/snew
9GreatFireVPN2.72 MB/s▼ 3
10NordVPN1.99 MB/s▼ 1

From the GreatFire ranking snapshot of Nov 1

New in the top 10: Karing; Hiddify

Out of the top 10: DarkPrince VPN; Paper