Official channel of the Russian MFA (Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation)
🔊 News channels:
на русском - @MID_Russia
en español - @MAERusia
en français - @MAErusse
🐤 For extra coverage follow us on X - x.com/mfa_russia
Created
1 November 2016 — 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-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 20 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 93% 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 5 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 857 comparable posts for this entry, running 4 August 2026 to 11 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 5 channels, the one whose matching posts we hold earliest is @MFARussia — which is this entry. That is a statement about our reading window, not a claim of authorship.
Recorded under the key clone_source, last confirmed 12 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 5 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.
65 measurements spanning 98 days, net +90. 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 54,331–54,766 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 65
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
11 Nov 2026, 13:57
54,659
-13
9 Nov 2026, 19:51
54,672
+7
8 Nov 2026, 13:59
54,665
-21
7 Nov 2026, 08:37
54,686
-10
6 Nov 2026, 10:49
54,696
-9
5 Nov 2026, 12:40
54,705
+4
4 Nov 2026, 12:19
54,701
+11
3 Nov 2026, 13:30
54,690
-2
2 Nov 2026, 13:06
54,692
-13
1 Nov 2026, 15:36
54,705
-11
31 Oct 2026, 17:21
54,716
+5
30 Oct 2026, 20:40
54,711
+6
29 Oct 2026, 23:27
54,705
+1
28 Oct 2026, 22:28
54,704
+11
28 Oct 2026, 00:44
54,693
+20
27 Oct 2026, 01:38
54,673
+2
25 Oct 2026, 22:49
54,671
+6
24 Oct 2026, 23:38
54,665
-5
23 Oct 2026, 21:31
54,670
-23
23 Oct 2026, 00:16
54,693
first reading
Engagement
868 posts held, back to 4 August 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 196 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
3.79%
avg views ÷ 54,659 subscribers
Avg views / post
2,070
274 posts measured
Reaction rate
—
this channel exposes no reaction counts
Posts in window
276
of 868 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
868 (4 August 2026 – 11 November 2026)
Views total
568,306
Reactions total
—
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
11 Nov 2026, 23:41 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
≈21,100
Videos
≈1,690
Links
≈19,200
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
12h 44m
Average length
7m 29s
Measured directly from 102 videos 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.
Recent posts
Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 28 of 276 posts held from the last 30 days (10.1%) 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).
⚡️ Press briefing by the Russian delegation, led by Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinskiy, following the talks in Abu Dhabi (November 11, 2026)
💬 Vladimir Medinskiy: First of all, on behalf of the entire Russian delegation, I would like to thank the leadership of the UAE and Abu Dhabi for the excellent organisation of the trilateral talks and for creating a friendly, businesslike atmosphere.
***
Answers to media qu…
🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation in St Andrew’s Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace (Moscow, November 11, 2026)
A package of documents was signed following the meeting, including the Declaration of the CSTO Collective Security Council.
💬 Vladimir Putin: My colleagues and I have just held a thorough and productive ex…
☢️ Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant (#ZNPP):
On November 11, an employee of the Zaporozhskaya NPP was killed in his own home in a Ukrainian armed forces strike.
The previous day, another of our colleagues – an electrical fitter at ZNPP – was killed on his way to work. The car he was travelling in was attacked by a Ukrainian drone. He died of his injuries at the scene.
◾️ This brings the number of plant employees…
⚔️ November 11 – the end of the Great Stand on the Ugra River – a memorable date in Russia's military history.
#OTD in 1480, after more than a month of confrontation on the banks of the Ugra River, Akhmat, Khan of the Great Horde, ordered his army to retreat. His withdrawal marked the end of the Tatar yoke, which had lasted for more than two centuries, and ushered in a new era for an independent Russian state.
By 1…
On the passing of Alexander Darchiev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States of America.
The leadership and staff of the Russian Foreign Ministry announce with profound sorrow that Alexander Darchiev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the USA, passed away suddenly on November 11, aged 66.
We have lost an outstanding diploma…
⚡️ On the adoption by the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee of Russia’s resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism
On November 10 in New York, the Third Committee of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution put forward by Russia entitled “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discriminati…
🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answers to questions from the programme “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” (Moscow, November 11, 2026)
❓ Question: How do you assess the trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: In this case, the trilateral format makes the most sense. As I understand it, the comments from all sides following the talks in Abu Dhabi were, overall, positive.
I’m leaving Zelensky out of this. H…
⚡️ On November 11, Moldova's Ambassador to Russia Lilian Darii was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The Ministry issued a strong protest over the Moldovan authorities’ decision on October 23 to declare a staff member of the Russian Embassy in Chisinau persona non grata. The authorities cited as a pretext the alleged discovery of debris from a drone carrying explosives on Moldovan territory.
The Ministry st…
🎙 Opening remarks by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a meeting with Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Serbian state-owned company Srbijagas Aleksandar Vulin (Moscow, November 11, 2026)
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We have known each other for a long time. We have also long known you as one of Serbia’s leading political figures.
You have a keen understanding of political developments and always keep the Serbi…
Showing the 12 most recent of 868 posts we hold for @MFARussia. 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
@MFARussia 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
11 September 2026
Most recent edit
3 November 2026
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Republished by 105 registered channels. The 48 listed are the ones that have forwarded the most posts; the rest are counted here but not each listed.
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 104 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
3
handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
Evidenced gone
1
we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
Never seen alive
2
vacant every time we have ever looked
@MFARussia named 3 handles 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.
Evidenced gone
We ourselves saw each of these resolve to a real page at some point before it went vacant — a genuine, evidenced change, not an inference from absence.
@russiainsouthsuda named in 1 post, 3 November 2026 – 3 November 2026 · confirmed gone 1 November 2026 (two independent sightings — see how we confirm a dead handle)evidenced
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
@rt_russian named in 1 post, 11 November 2026 – 11 November 2026
@rtnews named in 1 post, 8 November 2026 – 8 November 2026
Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 24 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
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.
Kremlin. News @news_kremlin_eng · 26,784 Telegram ranks this channel #1 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 11 September 2026
MoD Russia @mod_russia_en · 93,800 Telegram ranks this channel #3 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 16 August 2026
TV BRICS @tvbrics · 21,503 Telegram ranks this channel #32 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 30 September 2026
Russische Botschaft in Deutschland 🇷🇺 @RusBotschaft · 20,678 Telegram ranks this channel #37 of 93 here — alongside 92 others — read 26 September 2026
Multipolar Market @multipolarmarket · 26,814 Telegram ranks this channel #41 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 10 September 2026
Dmitry Medvedev @medvedev_telegramE · 40,035 Telegram ranks this channel #44 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 30 August 2026
Россия / Russia @russia · 33,975 Telegram ranks this channel #48 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 3 September 2026
World Pravda @worldpravda · 53,476 Telegram ranks this channel #50 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 24 August 2026
UKR LEAKS_eng @ukr_leaks_eng · 74,944 Telegram ranks this channel #54 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 19 August 2026
Brian Berletic's New Atlas Channel @brianlovethailand · 40,678 Telegram ranks this channel #57 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 29 August 2026
Patrick Lancaster News Today @patricklancasternewstoday · 39,596 Telegram ranks this channel #59 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 30 August 2026
Scott Ritter @ScottRitter · 85,712 Telegram ranks this channel #59 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 17 August 2026
Консульский департамент МИД России @kd_mid · 27,682 Telegram ranks this channel #61 of 94 here — alongside 93 others — read 15 September 2026
Victor vicktop55 @vicktop55 · 26,853 Telegram ranks this channel #61 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 11 September 2026
Ukraine Watch @ukraine_watch · 69,160 Telegram ranks this channel #62 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 20 August 2026
Ambasciata Russa in Italia/Посольство РФ в Италии @ambrusitalia · 25,342 Telegram ranks this channel #64 of 93 here — alongside 92 others — read 14 September 2026
The Duran @thedurancom · 51,367 Telegram ranks this channel #64 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 24 August 2026
Foreign Agent Intel @ForeignAgentIntel · 30,898 Telegram ranks this channel #65 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 6 September 2026
InfoDefenseENGLISH @infodefENGLAND · 50,367 Telegram ranks this channel #65 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 25 August 2026
Russians With Attitude @rwapodcast · 36,163 Telegram ranks this channel #70 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 1 September 2026
Russian Diplomat 🅉 @R_Diplomat · 19,764 Telegram ranks this channel #71 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 28 September 2026
Pepe Escobar @rocknrollgeopolitics · 66,007 Telegram ranks this channel #71 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 21 August 2026
Eva Karene Bartlett @EvaKarene_Bartlett · 32,454 Telegram ranks this channel #73 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 4 September 2026
RT Documentary @militarywave · 41,230 Telegram ranks this channel #73 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 29 August 2026
This channel appears in 27 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.
“Russian MFA 🇷🇺” (@MFARussia), 54,659 subscribers as measured 11 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/MFARussia.
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.