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Japan imposes new sanctions on Russia's shadow fleet

Rank
Ran
31h
Updated
2d ago
Final
Outlets
7
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
5

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TASS Russia · English 2 Oct, 04:11 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Polski (1) · Русский (1) · Српски (1) · فارسی (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 31 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: TASS, 2 Oct, 04:11 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 2 Oct, 04:11 UTC.
  3. Second country: Iran, with Khabar Online.
  4. Second region: Middle East, with Khabar Online.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

32 of 32 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

29%57%14%

  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 3 countries · 57%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

  1. TASS 2 Oct, 04:11 UTC
  2. Vedomosti +44m
  3. Khabar Online +7h 19m
  4. RMF24 +7h 42m
  5. South China Morning Post +8h 19m

Last to join

  1. RTS 3 Oct, 11:38 UTC
  2. Nikkei Asia 2 Oct, 16:30 UTC
  3. South China Morning Post 2 Oct, 12:30 UTC
  4. RMF24 2 Oct, 11:53 UTC
  5. Khabar Online 2 Oct, 11:30 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 2: Hong Kong, Japan. Europe 3: Poland, Russia, Serbia. Middle East 1: Iran. 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, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article TASS, 2 Oct 2026, 04:11 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 04:20 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 11:38 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 International. Topic Shipping & trade. 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.
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 312 3.71 6 5 6 5 4.0
3 Oct 2026 267 2.90 7 6 1 1 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 04:20 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 11:38 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Nikkei Asia Japan 2 Oct, 16:30 UTC
    Japan hits Russia 'shadow fleet' in 1st sanctions since Putin trip to disputed isle
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 2 Oct, 12:30 UTC
    Ukraine war: Japan’s new sanctions on Russia target oil exports

Europe 4 outlets

  • RTS Serbia 3 Oct, 11:38 UTC
    Јапан уводи нове санкције Русије
  • TASS Russia 2 Oct, 12:37 UTC
    Japan not considering new sanctions against Russia — ruling party deputy
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Japan mulls new anti-Russian sanctions — newspaper 2 Oct, 04:11 UTC
  • RMF24 Poland 2 Oct, 11:53 UTC
    Japonia zaciska sankcyjną pętlę wokół rosyjskiej floty cieni
  • Vedomosti Russia 2 Oct, 10:31 UTC
    Минфин Японии расширил санкции против России
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Япония хочет ввести новые санкции против России 2 Oct, 04:55 UTC

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Khabar Online Iran 2 Oct, 11:30 UTC
    ژاپن باز هم روسیه را تحریم کرد
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