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Pro-Russian nationalist Dodik claims victory in Bosnian elections

Rank
Running
30h
Updated
10h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
11
Regions
3
Countries
10
Languages
8

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Bloomberg United States · English 4 Oct, 20:15 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (2) · Čeština (1) · Italiano (1) · Lietuvių (1) · Nederlands (1) · Polski (1) · Português (1) · +6 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 11 after 31 hours.

5 10 15
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Bloomberg, 4 Oct, 20:15 UTC.
  2. Second country: Malaysia, with Free Malaysia Today.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Free Malaysia Today.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 5 Oct, 04:30 UTC.
  5. Now: 11 outlets.

Where it travelled

31 of 31 hours

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The 10 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

82%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
  • Europe 9 outlets · 8 countries · 82%

First movers

  1. Bloomberg 4 Oct, 20:15 UTC
  2. Free Malaysia Today +1h 20m
  3. Lrytas +8h 15m
  4. Die Zeit +8h 17m
  5. iDNES +9h 3m

Latest arrivals

  1. Público 5 Oct, 16:30 UTC
  2. La Repubblica 5 Oct, 16:00 UTC
  3. NOS 5 Oct, 14:17 UTC
  4. Frankfurter Allgemeine 5 Oct, 12:19 UTC
  5. Kyiv Independent 5 Oct, 07:33 UTC

The figures

Coverage
11 outlets in 10 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 11 outlets, 1 public-service, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 8: Czechia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, 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
Czech, German, English, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article Bloomberg, 4 Oct 2026, 20:15 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 20:30 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 16:30 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, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Topic Politics. 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
0.91, 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
5 Oct 2026 135 5.78 11 10 9 8 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 20:30 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 16:30 UTC

Covered by 11 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Bloomberg United States 4 Oct, 20:15 UTC
    Pro-Russian Dodik Praises Trump as Allies Triumph in Bosnia Vote

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 4 Oct, 21:34 UTC
    Bosnian Serb strongman thanks Trump and Putin after party’s election win

Europe 9 outlets

  • Público Portugal 5 Oct, 16:30 UTC
    Nacionalistas sérvios da Bósnia declaram vitória em eleições com abstenção recorde
  • La Repubblica Italy 5 Oct, 16:00 UTC
    Elezioni in Bosnia, vincono i nazionalisti e i serbi ringraziano Trump. L’Ue sempre più lontana
  • NOS Netherlands 5 Oct, 14:17 UTC
    Nationalisten in Bosnië winnen mogelijk ingewikkeldste verkiezingen ter wereld
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany 5 Oct, 12:19 UTC
    Bosnien-Hercegovina: Nationalistische Kräfte dominieren Wahlen
  • Kyiv Independent Ukraine 5 Oct, 07:33 UTC
    Pro-Russian Dodik claims party victory in Bosnian elections
  • Gazeta Wyborcza Poland 5 Oct, 07:29 UTC
    Milorad Dodik ogłasza zwycięstwo w wyborach w Bośni i Hercegowinie. Podziękował Trumpowi i Putinowi
  • iDNES Czechia 5 Oct, 05:18 UTC
    Bosenskosrbský politik Dodik oznámil volební výhru, děkoval Trumpovi i Putinovi
  • Die Zeit Germany 5 Oct, 04:32 UTC
    Wahlen in Bosnien-Herzegowina: Bosnisch-serbischer Hardliner Dodik erklärt sich zum Wahlsieger
  • Lrytas Lithuania 5 Oct, 04:30 UTC
    Bosnijos serbų lyderis skelbia pergalę rinkimuose, dėkoja D. Trumpui ir V. Putinui
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