Europe / Montenegro · Conflict & Security

Montenegro expels founder of pro-war Russian Telegram channel Rybar

Rank: 34
Running: 21h
Updated: 2h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 41
Regions: 4
Countries: 25
Languages: 19

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Novaya Gazeta Europe, 9 Oct, 08:23 UTC.
Second country: Ukraine, with Ukrainska Pravda.
Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
Fastest hour: +12 outlets from 9 Oct, 11:29 UTC.
Now: 41 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 25 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

83%

Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 5%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
Europe 34 outlets · 18 countries · 83%
Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 7%
International 1 outlet · 2%

First movers

Novaya Gazeta Europe 9 Oct, 08:23 UTC
Kommersant +6m
Vedomosti +24m
Ukrainska Pravda +30m
Meduza +53m

Latest arrivals

The Jerusalem Post 10 Oct, 03:40 UTC
Anadolu Agency 9 Oct, 23:45 UTC
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed 9 Oct, 16:10 UTC
Arab News 9 Oct, 16:06 UTC
Proto Thema 9 Oct, 15:54 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 41 outlets in 25 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 41 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 38 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Argentina, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Uzbekistan. Europe 18: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Uzbek.
Timeline: Earliest article Novaya Gazeta Europe, 9 Oct 2026, 08:23 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 08:30 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 03:40 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, Montenegro. 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: 3.34, 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.
Chain: Merged from 4 stories Montenegro detains Russian pro-war blogger Rybar; Founder of Russian Telegram channel detained in Montenegro; Russian pro-war blogger among 5 arrested in Montenegro over alleged destabilization plot; Mikhail Zvintchuk arrested in Montenegro over Z-project. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
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

9 Oct 2026 16 19.94 40 24 40 24 4.6

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Started 9 Oct, 08:30 UTC · Updated 10 Oct, 03:40 UTC

Merged from 4 stories

Covered by 41 outlets

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