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@russianbasics
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78subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001246968000 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @russianbasics |
| Description | Russia Analytics |
| Created | 26 March 2020 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 9 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 14 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/russianbasics |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Aug 2026, 20:01 | 78 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 05:51 | 78 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 12 March 2025 — 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.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 30 May 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 9 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
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.
63 reactions across 18 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 96.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 61 | 96.8% | |
| 🤔 | 2 | 3.17% |
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 18 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 63reactions 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 12 March 2025 to 30 May 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.
Over the past six months, an already unpleasant feed has become uglier, and I Iost appetite for writing here smth. Let me finish writing about the internet in Russia, and then we'll touch on other topics. I've already started talking about internet blocking, but the approach to this issue has been changing for at least a year. Russia is moving from blacklists to permissive ones. I think this can be compared to Irani…
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I've already written about how a war in the Middle East will benefit Russia in the short term. Although Israel and its proxy attacked Iran on Saturday, when the stock exchanges were closed, they failed to defeat the Islamic Republic by Monday. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed and major oil and gas fields under attack by Iranian drones, hydrocarbon prices have risen. Meanwhile, the discount on Russian oi…
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Today is the second day of Telegram ban. Yesterday in the morning one of the Russian media outlets claimed that Telegram would be banned. Later this message was confirmed by RosKomNadzor, Russian internet watchdog. For now I can write texts without vpn (sometimes sending a message takes 3-4 seconds, though), the media downloads are very slow. What can I say. I won't go anywhere, here, in telegram, I stand my groun…
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I had planned to write about the #internet in Russia back in the summer of 2025, but I was actively traveling around the country and abroad at the time, so I had little time and little desire to write. The situation with Iran inspired me to finally show you the state of communications in my country. Since the spring of 2022, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have been blocked in Russia. These blocks are official. Si…
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Video, posted without a caption
I like this edit
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Miracles don't last forever. Now everything looks too uncertain to claim smth for sure, but it seems the Kremlin lost yet another ally after the Syrian regime, while the Americans showed how special military operations performed. In my opinion, the latter is more important. Trump managed to topple the government of Venezuela within 3-4 hours without losses, showing that American military superiority is still a thin…
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Happy New Year to all my subscribers🎉🎉🎉
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If Russia doesn't break through the front (which is what the Kremlin is hoping for) or the Russian economy doesn't collapse (which is what Ukraine is hoping for), then the final agreement will be roughly as I outlined in previous messages.
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Now about the territories. The situation looks like this. According to possible peace settlement, Russia is tentatively withdrawing from the orange zone, relinquishing its claims to the two red clusters on the left, in exchange for one red cluster on the right. While Ukraine is refusing to cede any territories, Russia has hinted that it is prepared to sign the agreement.
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A few words about diplomacy. All year Trump tried to end conflicts in various regions of the world. It's ironic that the American president did this just to win the Nobel Peace Prize. It seemed he wasn't interested in anything else. Well, I'm not being picky. If people stop dying because of one politician's vanity, so be it. Unfortunately, Trump has had little success in the peacemaking arena. India and Pakistan re…
Absolutely nothing happened. Nothing at all. To conclude this awkward meeting between two presidents, I can say that in the short run Putin achieved more, because he discusses Ukraine without Ukrainians, he is accepted in the US as a respected leader etc. But in the long run we can get angry and disappointed Trump who can tighten anti-Russian sanctions and/or give more weapons to Kiev. The risks of the conflict in U…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @russianbasics. 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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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 9 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Russia 101” (@russianbasics), 78 subscribers as measured 9 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/russianbasics.
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.