ria.ru
Mixed
Results vary across ria.ru: of 10 URLs tested, 1 is blocked, 7 are disrupted some of the time, 1 loads normally and 1 has no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall drops the connection and breaks its TLS handshake. 319 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-03-06, the most recent on 2026-07-16.
The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
The site itself
http://ria.ruas of 2026Intermittenthttps://ria.ruNot blockedhttp://www.ria.ruas of 2026Intermittenthttps://www.ria.ruas of 2025IntermittentPages and subdomains (6)
http://ria.ru/radioas of 2026Intermittenthttp://en.ria.ruas of 2026Intermittenthttp://radiosputnik.ria.ruIntermittenthttps://radiosputnik.ria.ruas of 2026Blockedhttp://audio1.video.ria.ru/voicechiNot enough datahttp://en.ria.ru/world/20131123/184902456/Google-Chair-Russia-on-Chinas-Path-to-Web-Censorship.htmlIntermittentAbout ria.ru and the Great Firewall
Results vary across ria.ru: of 10 URLs tested, 1 is blocked, 7 are disrupted some of the time, 1 loads normally and 1 has no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall drops the connection and breaks its TLS handshake. 319 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-03-06, the most recent on 2026-07-16.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://ria.ru is intermittent, https://ria.ru is not blocked. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks ria.ru. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
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