Europe / Russia · Conflict & Security

Russia raises 2027 military budget by 27 percent

Rank
Ran: 44h
Updated: 5d ago
Final
Outlets: 28
Regions: 5
Countries: 20
Languages: 14

+10

Meduza Russia · English 28 Sept, 17:57 UTC

The earliest of 10 English reports

Read it also in Română (3) · +12 languages

Read at Meduza

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: An-Nahar, 28 Sept, 16:48 UTC.
Second country: Russia, with Meduza.
Second region: Europe, with Meduza.
Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 28 Sept, 19:18 UTC.
Last article: 28 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 20 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

18%57%

Africa 3 outlets · 3 countries · 11%
Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 7%
Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 4 countries · 18%
Europe 16 outlets · 9 countries · 57%
Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 7%

First movers

An-Nahar 28 Sept, 16:48 UTC
Meduza +1h 10m
Novaya Gazeta Europe +1h 26m
Digi24 +1h 28m
CNN Brasil +1h 37m

Last to join

G4Media 30 Sept, 07:14 UTC
Free Malaysia Today 29 Sept, 22:32 UTC
UzA 29 Sept, 18:33 UTC
ABC 29 Sept, 16:13 UTC
ARY News 29 Sept, 15:46 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 28 outlets in 20 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 28 outlets, 1 state-owned, 27 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 3: South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia. Americas 2: Brazil, United States. Asia-Pacific 4: Malaysia, Pakistan, Taiwan, Uzbekistan. Europe 9: Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Ukraine. Middle East 2: Lebanon, United Arab Emirates. 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: Arabic, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article An-Nahar, 28 Sept 2026, 16:48 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 16:50 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 13:23 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 Conflict & security. 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: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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.
Chain: Continued by Russia Plans Over 50 Trillion Rubles Defense Spending 2027-2029. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

28 Sept 2026 81 12.32 12 10 12 10 3.3

29 Sept 2026 37 25.97 27 20 16 13 3.3 → 4.0

30 Sept 2026 85 11.88 28 20 3 3 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 16:50 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 13:23 UTC

Covered by 28 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
28 Sept 2026	81	12.32	12	10	12	10	3.3
29 Sept 2026	37	25.97	27	20	16	13	3.3 → 4.0
30 Sept 2026	85	11.88	28	20	3	3	4.0

Covered by 28 outlets

Africa 3 outlets

Americas 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

Europe 16 outlets

Middle East 2 outlets