Researcher & writer based in Hong Kong. Former academic. Longform articles archived at https://lauraruggeri.substack.com and https://laura-ruggeri.medium.com. Email: [email protected]
Created
14 April 2022 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
International news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 90% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
Observations
These are measurements, not verdicts. Each one below states something we counted, alongside the evidence it was counted from, so you can check it rather than take it. None of them is graded: every observation this register holds is recorded at severity 0, because the precision of the detectors behind them has not been measured yet, and a rating we cannot support is worse than none. Read each as a fact about the data, not as a judgement about the channel. How we measure.
Content that also appears on other registered channels
Posts published here appear in near-verbatim form on 4 other registered channels. This entry also sits inside a group of 17 channels linked by matching posts, directly or through other channels in the group; two members of the group may share no posts with each other. The matching is on the text itself, not on Telegram’s forward marker, so it finds a copy whether or not it was labelled as one.
Matching posts — open both and compare (3 of the pairs behind the counts below)
Channels this entry shares post bodies with, where at least one matching post pair has no forward credit between the two channels, or to a common source, recorded in our data
Text overlap is the Jaccard coefficient over the set of distinct three-word phrases in the two bodies: 1.00 is identical wording, and the threshold for counting a pair at all is 0.70. Candidates are generated by simhash LSH (4 x 16-bit bands, exact Hamming <= 3) verified against the bodies with Jaccard over the SET of distinct 3-word shingles. Published first counts which side of each matching pair carries the earlier timestamp — in this corpus, which is the limitation directly below.
What this cannot establish
MEASURED, DOMINANT ERROR SOURCE: a post ingested before 2026-08-06 may have carried a forward header that was not recorded. A 45-pair hand-check against live t.me pages found 14 (31%) where the live page shows a forward header naming the other channel and the database has none, plus 4 more (9%) naming a third party. The text match itself was wrong 0 times out of 45. Read attribution_capture.items_in_trusted_window before treating the unattributed count as a claim.
Telegram lets a channel forward a post with a header naming the source, and we only began reliably recording that header on 2026-08-06. None of the 0 matches recorded here fall after that date, so for this entry we cannot say whether any of them carried a credit. The duplication is measured; the absence of attribution is not.
“Published first” means first in this corpus. We hold 171 comparable posts for this entry, running 31 July 2026 to 10 November 2026. A channel we have read one page deep will look younger than a neighbour we have read in full, and the order would flip with no change in the underlying facts.
The detector’s own notes on this observation, as it recorded them. Names in this_style are fields of the underlying evidence record, which the plain-English paragraphs above read out for this entry.
Verbatim republication has three causes and the text separates only two: a clone/mirror, unattributed copy-paste, or BOTH channels copying a common third source that neither attributes. The spread filter (content held by at most 8 channels) reduces the third and does not remove it.
'Earliest' means earliest IN THIS CORPUS. A channel ingested one page deep will look younger than a neighbour ingested in full; corpus_coverage above is there to be checked before the direction is believed.
shared_verified_est extrapolates the sampled pass rate over the full narrow match count; sampled/passed are the numbers actually measured.
Absence of a forward header is not proof of intent: Telegram lets a channel disable forward attribution, and a credit written in the body is not parsed as attribution here (mention_edge_either_way above is the closest available signal).
Of the group of 17 channels, the one whose matching posts we hold earliest is @donbassfilm. That channel is not among the channels listed above, so this entry may share no posts with it and this does not say where this entry’s content came from. It is a statement about our reading window, not a claim of authorship.
Recorded under the key clone_source, last confirmed 11 November 2026. An observation that a later pass no longer finds is cleared, and a cleared observation is removed from this page rather than being shown struck through — we do not keep publishing a claim we have withdrawn. Dispute an observation.
Channels linked by matching posts
This channel is in a group of 17 registered channels linked by matching posts, directly or through other channels in the group. This channel may share no posts with some of the channels listed below, and listed channels may share none with each other. Links are found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register.
Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown in this list. “First” could only mean first in our own crawl, which depends on how deep we happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. Our one hand-check read 45 of the highest-confidence flagged pairs against the live Telegram pages. In 18 of them the live page showed a “Forwarded from” credit that our database had no record of, so reading that pair as an unattributed copy was wrong; the check did not measure who published first. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Near-verbatim matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.
61 measurements spanning 97 days, net +88. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 15,393–15,565 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 61
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
11 Nov 2026, 09:56
15,505
-2
9 Nov 2026, 17:35
15,507
+2
8 Nov 2026, 07:00
15,505
+1
7 Nov 2026, 03:49
15,504
-3
6 Nov 2026, 06:17
15,507
+8
5 Nov 2026, 08:56
15,499
+6
4 Nov 2026, 10:17
15,493
+5
2 Nov 2026, 12:18
15,488
-2
31 Oct 2026, 17:44
15,490
+3
30 Oct 2026, 18:49
15,487
-9
29 Oct 2026, 16:19
15,496
-4
28 Oct 2026, 18:58
15,500
-5
27 Oct 2026, 18:40
15,505
-3
26 Oct 2026, 17:16
15,508
+2
25 Oct 2026, 17:09
15,506
-1
24 Oct 2026, 15:45
15,507
-2
23 Oct 2026, 16:27
15,509
+5
22 Oct 2026, 17:46
15,504
+6
21 Oct 2026, 15:48
15,498
+4
20 Oct 2026, 15:28
15,494
first reading
Engagement
179 posts held, back to 31 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 71 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
40.0%
avg views ÷ 15,505 subscribers
Avg views / post
6,210
54 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.33%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
54
of 179 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 11 November 2026
Posts held
179 (31 July 2026 – 11 November 2026)
Views total
335,172
Reactions total
4,469
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
11 Nov 2026, 18:49 UTC
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈4,010
Videos
≈763
Links
≈4,280
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 11 November 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Video runtime
28s
Average length
28s
Measured directly from 1 video with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
13,323 reactions across 174 posts, in 26 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 37.9% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
👍
5,054
37.9%
❤
2,070
15.5%
🤬
1,635
12.3%
👏
1,505
11.3%
💯
1,174
8.81%
🤣
522
3.92%
😡
221
1.66%
🔥
197
1.48%
⚡
159
1.19%
👀
130
0.976%
😢
105
0.788%
🤨
89
0.668%
🤯
85
0.638%
👌
74
0.555%
😱
72
0.54%
🥴
68
0.51%
💔
52
0.39%
💋
26
0.195%
👎
21
0.158%
🌚
16
0.12%
6 further kinds
48
0.36%
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 179 of the 179 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 13,730 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 179 most recent posts we hold, published 31 July 2026 to 11 November 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 46 of 54 posts held from the last 30 days (85.2%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).
I colloqui trilaterali di Abu Dhabi erano destinati al fallimento fin dall’inizio a causa di un disaccordo fondamentale e insanabile sulla sequenza tra pace e sicurezza.
Per Mosca, la causa profonda del conflitto non è una disputa territoriale localizzata, ma l’architettura di sicurezza europea post-Guerra Fredda, considerata intrinsecamente aggressiva.
L’obiettivo primario della Russia in qualsiasi negoziato è l’is…
Trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi were effectively doomed from the start because of an irreconcilable, fundamental disagreement over the sequencing of peace and security.
For Moscow, the root cause of the conflict is not a localized territorial dispute, but the post-Cold War European security architecture, which is inherently aggressive. Russia’s primary objective in any negotiation is the establishment of a new, bindin…
La strategia del cancelliere tedesco Merz di tenere in ostaggio il bilancio dell'UE per forzare l'unanimità su ulteriori finanziamenti per l'Ucraina (45 miliardi di euro) ha già scatenato una dura reazione. Quattro Stati membri (Slovacchia, Repubblica Ceca, Ungheria e Bulgaria) stanno respingendo l'ultimatum. Il primo ministro slovacco Robert Fico ha denunciato esplicitamente la mossa come un "ricatto", aggiungendo …
Merz’s strategy of holding the EU budget hostage to force unanimity on more funds for Ukraine (€45 billion) has already triggered a fierce backlash. Four member states (Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Bulgaria) are pushing back against the ultimatum. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico explicitly denounced the move as "blackmail" adding that
"Germany was wrong about mass migration, was wrong about nuclear en…
Un'edizione del Corriere della Sera veramente da incorniciare. Il titolo parla di "negoziati tra Kiev e Mosca". Washington non pervenuta. Ma l’Italia c’è. Dove? Boh. Si cita Rubio, ma a questo punto si potrebbe citare anche Osho, visto che ai colloqui non è presente. Poi, per alimentare ulteriormente la confusione, la foto ricordo di una rimpatriata tra amici atlantisti svoltasi prima dei negoziati tra Russia, USA e …
La disinformazione del Corriere della Sera. Ad Abu Dhabi si stanno svolgendo colloqui tra le delegazioni di Russia, USA e Ucraina. Nessun paese dell'UE vi prende parte. Ma da questa foto non lo direste mai. @LauraRuHK
My latest (long!) article has been published in Strategic Culture. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/11/10/the-useful-and-the-just-utilitarianism-pragmatism-and-the-anti-human-drift-of-the-western-capitalist-system/
The technocratic militarist model now taking shape – in which military power, financial capital and digital infrastructures are fused into a single apparatus – represents an attempt to resolve the contradictions of a system that once again finds serious limits to its claim to displace them in time and space. This apparatus, in effect a techno-military capitalist oligarchy, does not merely supply tools; thanks to its …
Since returning to Hong Kong a few days ago, I have been craving a few staples that cannot be found in local supermarkets. Yesterday I made the trip to Mong Kok, where a so-called Russian shop opened last year. The experience was as surreal as walking into an Italian grocery store that not only doesn't sell pasta but has never even heard of it. I had crossed town specifically in search of grechka, the buckwheat porri…
La Lituania è in trattative con Taipei per cambiare il nome di un controverso ufficio di rappresentanza a Vilnius. Quando nel 2021 la Lituania decise di aprire un "Ufficio di Rappresentanza di Taiwan", in palese violazione del Principio di Una Sola Cina, stava agendo come utile idiota in una più ampia strategia occidentale di contenimento della Cina. Vilnius credeva erroneamente di poter giocare la "carta Taiwan" per…
Lithuania is in talks with Taipei over changing the name of a controversial representative office in Vilnius. When Lithuania allowed the opening of a "Taiwanese Representative Office" in 2021, a blatant violation of the One-China Principle, it was acting as a willing proxy in a broader Western strategy to contain China. Vilnius mistakenly believed it could play the "Taiwan card" to score cheap geopolitical points wit…
MOLDOVA – Firmare un accordo tecnico-militare con il regime di Kiev che prevede la coordinazione e produzione di droni e sistemi di difesa aerea è il colmo della follia politica. Se le autorità di Chișinău avessero ancora un briciolo di senno, capirebbero che questa mossa trascina di fatto la Moldavia – solo formalmente paese neutrale – nel conflitto. Il 26 ottobre Ucraina e Moldavia hanno firmato un accordo quinquen…
🤬69💯17❤6👍3😱3👎2👌1😐1
Signed Laura Ru
Showing the 12 most recent of 179 posts we hold for @LauraRuHK. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Posts edited after publishing
@LauraRuHK edited 6 posts after it first published — the same permalink now carries different wording than the one this register originally read, caught because our own crawl held a copy of the earlier text.
An edit is not deception. Typo fixes, price updates and corrections look exactly like this too — this register can tell you the wording changed and when, not why. How this is measured.
First edit seen
15 August 2026
Most recent edit
5 November 2026
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Mentions
Named by 42 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it. The 24 listed below are the most frequent namers; the rest are counted above but not each listed.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
Dead references
1
handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
Evidenced gone
0
we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
Never seen alive
1
vacant every time we have ever looked
@LauraRuHK named 1 handle that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
@sputnikint named in 1 post, 18 August 2026 – 18 August 2026
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
Franco Fracassi Giornalista Indipendente @Franco_Fracassi · 43,799 Telegram ranks this channel #48 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 28 August 2026
Giorgio Bianchi Photojournalist @giorgiobianchiphotojournalist · 114,627 Telegram ranks this channel #48 of 97 here — alongside 96 others — read 17 August 2026
Pepe Escobar @rocknrollgeopolitics · 66,007 Telegram ranks this channel #49 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 21 August 2026
Cesare Sacchetti @cesaresacchetti · 61,383 Telegram ranks this channel #54 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 22 August 2026
Donbass italia @donbassitalia · 37,983 Telegram ranks this channel #59 of 95 here — alongside 94 others — read 31 August 2026
l'AntiDiplomatico @lantidiplomatico · 88,165 Telegram ranks this channel #60 of 98 here — alongside 97 others — read 17 August 2026
Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley · 21,721 Telegram ranks this channel #61 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 22 September 2026
Alexander Dugin @Dugin_Aleksandr · 22,311 Telegram ranks this channel #62 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 20 September 2026
Patrick Lancaster News Today @patricklancasternewstoday · 39,596 Telegram ranks this channel #62 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 30 August 2026
O.d.E.G. Guerra NATO-RUSSIA @OrdEvG · 26,477 Telegram ranks this channel #63 of 96 here — alongside 95 others — read 12 September 2026
Matteo Brandi - Canale Ufficiale @MatBrandi · 23,264 Telegram ranks this channel #70 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 18 September 2026
Michele Giovagnoli (canale ufficiale) @michelegiovagnoli · 36,889 Telegram ranks this channel #70 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 1 September 2026
METODO DI BELLA @METODO_DI_BELLA · 20,636 Telegram ranks this channel #71 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 26 September 2026
Dr. BARBARA BALANZONI (qui doc, video, audio,foto) @drbarbarabalanzoni · 69,354 Telegram ranks this channel #72 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 20 August 2026
CORVELVA @corvelva1993 · 37,161 Telegram ranks this channel #74 of 77 here — alongside 76 others — read 1 September 2026
Silver Nervuti @silvernervuti · 42,233 Telegram ranks this channel #74 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 29 August 2026
InfoDefenseITALIA @infodefITALY · 47,745 Telegram ranks this channel #74 of 95 here — alongside 94 others — read 26 August 2026
Eurasia & Multipolarity @EurasianChoice · 23,582 Telegram ranks this channel #75 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 17 September 2026
giuliettochiesareal @giuliettochiesareal · 12 Telegram ranks this channel #75 of 98 here — alongside 97 others — read 12 September 2026
Russian MFA 🇷🇺 @MFARussia · 54,659 Telegram ranks this channel #75 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 24 August 2026
Weltanschauung Italia @weltanschauungitaliaofficial · 23,864 Telegram ranks this channel #76 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 17 September 2026
Marco Mori @marcomoriofficial · 21,954 Telegram ranks this channel #78 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 21 September 2026
𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗢𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗢 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 @AndreaTosattoOfficial · 23,331 Telegram ranks this channel #79 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 18 September 2026
Ambasciata Russa in Italia/Посольство РФ в Италии @ambrusitalia · 25,342 Telegram ranks this channel #79 of 93 here — alongside 92 others — read 14 September 2026
This channel appears in 53 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 11 November 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Laura Ru” (@LauraRuHK), 15,505 subscribers as measured 11 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/LauraRuHK.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.