Europe / Russia · Politics

Russia reports cyberattacks targeting parliamentary elections

Rank
Ran: 26h
Updated: 14d ago
Final
Outlets: 4
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 3

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

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Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 50%
Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 50%

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Russia reports cyberattacks on electronic voting system during parliamentary election, 16 to 20 Sept 2026, 22 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 1 state-owned, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 2: Romania, Russia. Middle East 2: Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 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, Russian.
Timeline: Earliest article Kommersant, 20 Sept 2026, 12:58 UTC. First seen 20 Sept 2026, 16:00 UTC. Last seen 21 Sept 2026, 18:27 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 Politics. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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: 3.34, at the end of the last day measured. 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: Continues Russia reports cyberattacks on electronic voting system during parliamentary election. 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

20 Sept 2026 254 3.71 4 4 4 4 1.4 → 2.0

21 Sept 2026 383 3.34 4 4 1 1 2.4

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How this was measured

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
20 Sept 2026	254	3.71	4	4	4	4	1.4 → 2.0
21 Sept 2026	383	3.34	4	4	1	1	2.4

Covered by 4 outlets

Europe 2 outlets

Middle East 2 outlets