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Increase of users in Ukraine due to block of Russia-based services

There was a large and sudden increase in users from Ukraine, both relay and bridge, on 2017-05-16.

It is probably related to a blockage by Ukraine of some Russia-based sites including VKontakte and Mail.ru:

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There was also a spike in Tor Browser downloads for the en-US and ru locales. webstats-tb-locale-2017-05-01-2017-07-06.png link