🇷🇺 Russia

How much the world's press covers Russia, from our daily GDELT aggregates

Stories yesterday

89,611

vs usual weekday

2.00×

Average tone

-2.3

Conflict share

22%

Stories per day — last 30 days

In the news — 2026-10-21

·Trump says Russia ‘has been fine on Ukraine’ as he makes new deals with Putin. Will his strategy pay off?238 outlets

www.yahoo.com

·How Ukraine Is Navigating Trump’s Latest U-Turn128 outlets

foreignpolicy.com

·President Stubb heralds "good day for peace" after Oslo summit126 outlets

yle.fi

·US envoy to meet Russia's president after 'productive' talks with Zelensky121 outlets

arynews.tv

·Trump envoy Steve Witkoff slammed for calling Putin a 'humanitarian' as administration's close ties to Kremlin under mounting scrutiny106 outlets

www.dailymail.com

Last 14 days

Day	Stories	Tone	Conflict
2026-10-21	89,611	-2.3	22%
2026-10-20	30,972	-2.8	27%
2026-10-19	36,988	-2.9	29%
2026-10-18	32,368	-3.8	35%
2026-10-17	48,361	-3.6	32%
2026-10-16	29,419	-3.1	32%
2026-10-15	39,069	-3.4	34%
2026-10-14	52,520	-3.6	37%
2026-10-13	52,077	-3.6	34%
2026-10-12	63,590	-3.4	35%
2026-10-11	25,241	-3.2	30%
2026-10-10	35,730	-3.5	33%
2026-10-09	35,555	-3.4	33%
2026-10-08	43,334	-3.9	35%

Counts are stories mentioning Russia in GDELT's open event data. Tone is GDELT's average document tone (negative = grimmer coverage); conflict share is the portion of events classed as verbal or material conflict.