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Issue created May 24, 2017 by David Fifield@dcfOwner

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:

  • https://www.rt.com/business/388502-ukraine-bans-vk-yandex/ (archive link)

Other links:

  • reddit post
  • tor-talk thread

userstats-relay-country-ua-2017-05-01-2017-07-06-off.pnglink

userstats-bridge-country-ua-2017-05-01-2017-07-06.png link

userstats-bridge-combined-ua-2017-05-01-2017-07-06.png link

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

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