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Weekly observatory digest · auto-generated

Week 2026-W45 · Russia

Nov 2 – Nov 8 (UTC, Monday to Sunday)· Data through Nov 8· Generated

No national outage was recorded in Russia this week; the largest rise in OONI anomaly rate was Discord (+4.8%); Tor bridge users averaged 136,351 a day (−89,694 on last week); Red Shield VPN led the tool ranking.

384 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
Discord59%54%+4.8%3,507
ChatGPT7%10%−3.6%527
X69%66%+2.6%3,657
YouTube62%59%+2.1%12,480
Instagram80%79%+1.3%14,069
Google1%2%−1.0%487
Wikipedia2%1%+1.0%393
Facebook79%80%−0.6%14,137
GitHub3%3%+0.6%1,332
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
Tor1%2%−0.7%11,611
Tor Snowflake30%25%+5.4%225
Psiphon24%24%−0.1%14,179
RiseupVPN100%100%±0%82
STUN61%57%+4.3%98,850

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 week136,351−89,694
Daily mean, last week226,044
Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks
09-14Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks11-08
Global transports (daily mean)
  • obfs4164,675
  • snowflake59,505
  • webtunnel55,175

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.

  • Bandwidth10.4Mbps(+0.5)Last week: 10.0 Mbps
  • Latency78ms(+4)Last week: 74 ms
  • DNS resolution68ms(−13)Last week: 82 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 VPN3.62 MB/s=
2SotaVpn3.01 MB/s▲ 2
3Karing3.72 MB/s=
4hidemy.name VPN2.76 MB/s▼ 2
5Amnezia2.94 MB/s▲ 2
6Князь ВПН3.10 MB/s▼ 1
7zapret11.86 MB/s▼ 1
8Hiddify3.23 MB/s=
9NordVPN2.06 MB/s▲ 1
10GreatFireVPN2.67 MB/s▼ 1

From the GreatFire ranking snapshot of Nov 8