Undesirable to both sides: Russia and Ukraine have now both cut Monetochka's song from the new Spider-Man movie. A Russian bootleg circulating online also splices in an AI-generated bank-card ad, inventing a scene between Spider-Man, the Punisher, and The Product. https://t.me/PlushevChannel/37805 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/d0HpmWx

Channel
The Russia Guy
@krothrock
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cross-platform identity · Cite this entry
1,362subscribers
-8 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001178166139 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @krothrock |
| Created | 30 March 2020 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 13 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 13 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/krothrock |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026, 16:07 | 1,362 | -4 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 22:16 | 1,366 | -4 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:47 | 1,370 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:36 | 1,370 | first reading |
Engagement
20 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 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 6.38%
- avg views ÷ 1,362 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 86.9
- 20 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 1.16%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 20
- of 20 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. It is computed over the 2 of 20 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 7 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (4 August 2026 – 7 August 2026) |
| Views total | 1,738 |
| Reactions total | 2 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 7 Aug 2026, 08:47 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.
Reaction mix
2 reactions across 2 posts, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👎 | 2 | 100.0% |
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 2 of the 20 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 2reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 4 August 2026 to 7 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.
Recent posts
The US used to assess that Putin wouldn't provoke a NATO country while still fighting in Ukraine. That changed this year, WSJ reports, citing anon officials who say new intel finds he could hit an ally as he's "squeezed" at the front & "under pressure" at home. AEI & CSIS also enter the chat. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-intel-finds-putin-could-test-natos-resolve-with-limited-incursion-e3b02e2c via Kevin Rot…
"Ukraine's military has taken nearly 2.5 million casualties in the war," claims Apti Alaudinov, deputy head of Russia's armed forces' military-political directorate and commander of the Chechen Akhmat units. He made the remarks to the state news agency TASS. https://t.me/SolovievLive/380174 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/MpfCBgk
Russia's Transport Ministry is rewriting its road-works rules to extend repair budgets to anti-drone defenses (eg, netting corridors, screens, shelters for civilians), Kommersant reports. The same money will also cover rebuilding roads & bridges damaged in attacks. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8864181 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/Yn2SIZs
from a biblical influence operation ©️ to a special sanctions operation ™️, we're officially onto The Next Thing via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/0bLHS7r
A Russian military court sentenced two Ukrainian POWs, Dmytro Horiainov and Roman Ponomarenko, to a maximum-security prison for 18 and 19 years for serving in the Azov Battalion. Russia has also added both men to its official registry of “terrorists and extremists.” https://zona.media/news/2026/08/06/azov via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/nPiuLc1
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Two employees of Ukrposhta, Ukraine's state postal service, were killed and a mechanic wounded when a Russian strike destroyed its sorting facility in Pavlohrad, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, CEO Igor Smelyansky says. https://t.me/stranaua/244183 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/ieu21qm
Russia could deploy captured Ukrainian drones against Baltic critical infrastructure to create uncertainty over who launched the attack, Lithuanian military intel claims. Lithuanian troops have been guarding the Klaipėda LNG terminal & LitPol Link power line to Poland since June 18. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3013086/lithuanian-intelligence-says-russia-may-use-ukrainian-drones-to-attack-baltic-targets …
More than 41k Russians who fought in Ukraine (& their kids) have taken state-funded university spots under a quota that sidesteps normal competition. That's nearly a third of the 117k students admitted to funded spots so far this cycle, crowding out top-scoring, non-military applicants. https://t.me/Govorit_NeMoskva/67665 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/zYMSe5a
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Buryatia journalist Vasilisa Shishkina, who reported on violations of mobilized soldiers' rights, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for treason. (What she actually did is unclear.) An appeals court effectively extended her sentence by changing her time-already-served calculus. https://t.me/dubkovreports/14 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/gvA1d5V
Two years after Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region, the fate of roughly 300 civilians remains unknown, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova told Zvezda News today. She put the total number who went missing during Ukraine's occupation at 2,176. https://t.me/zvezdanews/178943 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/awA7DFE
FSO guards & National Guard troops sealed off a Moscow cemetery for the burial of a major general said to have died in the Aug. 1 restaurant bombing that killed 5 people, according to the Telegram channel VChK-OGPU. Russian Ground Forces and Aerospace Forces flags were spotted. https://t.me/astrapress/121354 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/FR40Mtm
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @krothrock. 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.
Mentions
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
@astrapress · 337,1531 postАдвокат Дубков сообщает
@dubkovreports · 351 postФонтанка SPB Online
@fontankaspb · 376,4981 postГоворит НеМосква
@Govorit_NeMoskva · 53,9561 postАлександр Хинштейн
@Hinshtein · 217,4331 postPLUSHEV/ПЛЮЩЕВ
@PlushevChannel · 98,5341 postСОЛОВЬЁВ
@solovievlive · 1,098,6371 postПолитика Страны
@stranaua · 331,1251 postТАСС
@tass_agency · 567,6491 postТимур Ткаченко 🇺🇦
@tkachenkotymur · 17,5621 postZvezdanews | «Звезда»
@zvezdanews · 125,1291 post
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.
Cross-platform identity — Wikidata
A Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.
| Label | Kevin Rothrock |
|---|---|
| Description | managing editor at Meduza |
| X / Twitter | @KevinRothrock |
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 13 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Russia Guy” (@krothrock), 1,362 subscribers as measured 13 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/krothrock.
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.