Whilst in London, I teamed up with Iconic Russia to compare grocery prices on everyday items between Russia and the west. Where is more expensive - the UK or Russia?
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@britishmaninrussia
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722subscribers
+27 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002474092691 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @britishmaninrussia |
| Created | Between 1 September 2024 and 31 March 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/britishmaninrussia |
Travel — 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 20 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 65% 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 why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept 2026, 19:21 | 722 | +16 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 06:22 | 706 | +5 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 11:17 | 701 | +2 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 04:28 | 699 | +5 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:11 | 694 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 04:46 | 695 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 04:33 | 695 | first reading |
8 posts held, back to 25 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 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 8 posts for this entry, the most recent from 5 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
149 reactions across 8 posts, in 10 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 55.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 83 | 55.7% | |
| 🔥 | 27 | 18.1% | |
| 🎉 | 18 | 12.1% | |
| 👍 | 10 | 6.71% | |
| ❤🔥 | 4 | 2.68% | |
| 🌚 | 2 | 1.34% | |
| 😁 | 2 | 1.34% | |
| ✍ | 1 | 0.671% | |
| 👏 | 1 | 0.671% | |
| 🤔 | 1 | 0.671% |
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 8 of the 8 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 149 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 8 most recent posts we hold, published 25 July 2026 to 5 August 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.
Whilst in London, I teamed up with Iconic Russia to compare grocery prices on everyday items between Russia and the west. Where is more expensive - the UK or Russia?
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Did you know that there's a small island located in the middle of the UK, but it's not a part of it whatsoever? The Isle of Man, located in the Irish Sea, is a self-governing Crown Dependency with its own parliament, which is widely regarded as the world’s oldest continuously operating parliament, dating back over 1000 years. The island has a rich Viking history and is famous for many things such as the Bee Gees an…
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I took my mum for a ride on a vintage metro train from 1938, running on part of the first ever metro line in the world in London. The train is a symbol of art-deco style and comfort and they were so well loved and maintained that they operated for 50 years! It's great to see it preserved and running to this day!
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As a British man living in Moscow, if I want a proper English Breakfast then I have to cook it myself! So of course I'll take the opportunity to have someone cook me one whilst I'm on holiday in England! The portions are amazing too!
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What's it like to study in a different country? I went to Kaliningrad to investigate and the reel I made won me second place in the International Festival of Youth media competition!
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As much I love going to concerts in Russia, most of my all time favourite artists do concerts in the west; and they're getting old so time is running out to see them! OMD just so happened to be playing live in Margate during their 'Summer of Hits' tour on the evening of my birthday!
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We've gone from London to Margate, a small seaside town on the south coast of England. Now bring on the OMD concert!
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It's my birthday! I've celebrated my last two birthdays in Russia, so I wanted to celebrate my jubilee in England with my family and English friends! 🎉
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Showing the 8 most recent of 8 posts we hold for @britishmaninrussia. 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.
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Names
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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.
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 12 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“British man in Russia” (@britishmaninrussia), 722 subscribers as measured 12 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/britishmaninrussia.
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.