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Russia seeks voluntary donations from oligarchs to cover budget deficit

Rank
Ran
41h
Updated
43h ago
Closed
Outlets
6
Regions
2
Countries
4
Languages
4

+0

Kyiv Independent Ukraine · English 2 Oct, 19:26 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Română (2) · Українська (1) · 中文 (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 42 hours.

2 4 6
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Liberty Times, 2 Oct, 13:24 UTC.
  2. Second country: Romania, with HotNews.
  3. Second region: Europe, with HotNews.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 2 Oct, 13:24 UTC.
  5. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

43 of 43 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%67%

  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 2 countries · 67%

First movers

  1. Liberty Times 2 Oct, 13:24 UTC
  2. HotNews +8m
  3. Kyiv Independent +6h 2m
  4. Digi24 +6h 44m
  5. Unian +32h 58m

Last to join

  1. The Business Standard 4 Oct, 07:40 UTC
  2. Unian 3 Oct, 22:22 UTC
  3. Digi24 2 Oct, 20:07 UTC
  4. Kyiv Independent 2 Oct, 19:26 UTC
  5. HotNews 2 Oct, 13:32 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 2: Bangladesh, Taiwan. Europe 2: Romania, Ukraine. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Romanian, Ukrainian, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Liberty Times, 2 Oct 2026, 13:24 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 13:50 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 07:40 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, Russia. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.00, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
2 Oct 2026 376 3.15 4 3 4 3 4.0
3 Oct 2026 190 4.12 5 3 1 1 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 13:50 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 07:40 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • The Business Standard Bangladesh 4 Oct, 07:40 UTC
    Wealthiest Russians fund 1% of Russia's state spending through 'voluntary' donations in 2026
  • Liberty Times Taiwan 2 Oct, 13:24 UTC
    俄國富豪「自願」掏錢贊助國庫 普廷仍難填補預算赤字

Europe 4 outlets

  • Unian Ukraine 3 Oct, 22:22 UTC
    Найзаможніші росіяни перерахували понад $5 мільярдів доларів на війну в Україні
  • Digi24 Romania 2 Oct, 20:07 UTC
    Miliardarii ruși „se oferă voluntari” să finanțeze bugetul lui Putin. Au virat deja peste 5,6 miliarde de dolari
  • Kyiv Independent Ukraine 2 Oct, 19:26 UTC
    Russian billionaires 'volunteer' to fund state budget after closed-door meeting with Putin, Reuters reports
  • HotNews Romania 2 Oct, 13:32 UTC
    Cum își micșorează Rusia deficitul bugetar. Donații „voluntare” de la cei mai bogați oameni din țară, după o întâlnire cu Putin
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