Today OONI and Roskomsvoboda co-published a new research report documenting how Internet censorship changed in Russia over the last year (since the start of the war in Ukraine) based on OONI data analysis.

Read our report in:

* English: https://ooni.org/post/2023-russia-a-year-after-the-conflict/

* Russian: https://ooni.org/ru/post/2023-russia-a-year-after-the-conflict/

You can also read Roskomsvoboda's publication about the report here: https://roskomsvoboda.org/post/rks-ooni-odin-god/

# Key Findings

Overall, OONI data analysis shows the blocking of 494 domains in Russia. Many more websites are also blocked, beyond those tested.

The blocked domains fall under 28 categories, suggesting pervasive levels of internet censorship in Russia.

New blocks that emerged in Russia over the last year include:

* Blocking of Russian & international human rights websites (e.g. Human Rights Watch & Amnesty International)
* Blocking of investigative journalism & news media sites
* Blocking of Instagram, SoundCloud and Patreon

Access to the Tor Project's website was temporarily unblocked in Russia between 15th to 28th July 2022.

Several discontinued sites have been unblocked over the last year (possibly as part of a "blocklist cleanup").

We confirmed the blocking of 48 domains (including a Let's Encrypt domain) based on OONI data, which do not appear to be included in Russia's official blocking registry.

OONI data also suggests that access to a major CDN was blocked in the past year.

You can continue to monitor internet censorship in Russia through real-time OONI data: https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=RU&since=2023-01-25&until=2023-02-25&time_grain=day&axis_x=measurement_start_day&test_name=web_connectivity

We thank OONI Probe users in Russia for contributing measurements.