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Putin observes military exercises in Chelyabinsk region

Rank
Ran
3h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
7
Regions
2
Countries
4
Languages
5

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TASS Russia · English 2 Oct, 15:53 UTC

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Read it also in Русский (3) · Čeština (1) · Українська (1) · العربية (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 4 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Vedomosti, 2 Oct, 15:29 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 2 Oct, 15:29 UTC.
  3. Second country: Ukraine, with NV.
  4. Second region: Middle East, with Al Ittihad.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

4 of 4 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

86%14%

  • Europe 6 outlets · 3 countries · 86%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

  1. Vedomosti 2 Oct, 15:29 UTC
  2. Kommersant +21m
  3. TASS +24m
  4. Novaya Gazeta Europe +1h 17m
  5. NV +2h 5m

Last to join

  1. Al Ittihad 2 Oct, 19:03 UTC
  2. iDNES 2 Oct, 17:42 UTC
  3. NV 2 Oct, 17:35 UTC
  4. Novaya Gazeta Europe 2 Oct, 16:46 UTC
  5. TASS 2 Oct, 15:53 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 2 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 3: Czechia, Russia, Ukraine. Middle East 1: 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, Czech, English, Russian, Ukrainian.
Timeline
Earliest article Vedomosti, 2 Oct 2026, 15:29 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 15:30 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 19:03 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.
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 276 4.20 7 4 7 4 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 15:30 UTC · Updated 19:03 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Europe 6 outlets

  • iDNES Czechia 2 Oct, 17:42 UTC
    Putin sledoval na Urale vojenské cvičení Střed 2026. Účastnilo se ho 47 tisíc vojáků
  • NV Ukraine 2 Oct, 17:35 UTC
    Кортеж Путина на военные учения в Челябинской области сопровождал вертолёт — видео
  • Novaya Gazeta Europe Russia 2 Oct, 16:46 UTC
    Путин приехал в Челябинскую область на учения «Центр 2026». В регионе перекрыли все федеральные трассы
  • Vedomosti Russia 2 Oct, 16:36 UTC
    Путин посетил полигон «Чебаркульский»: главное об учениях «Центр-2026»
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Путин посетил полигон «Чебаркульский» в Челябинской области 2 Oct, 15:29 UTC
  • TASS Russia 2 Oct, 15:53 UTC
    Putin meets with foreign military attaches
  • Kommersant Russia 2 Oct, 15:51 UTC
    Путин понаблюдал за учениями «Центр-2026» в Челябинской области

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Al Ittihad United Arab Emirates 2 Oct, 19:03 UTC
    بوتين يتابع مناورات عسكرية في جبال الأورال
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