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StraightForward

@straightforward_ru

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2,132subscribers

+2 since we began measuring on 5 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1002036486277
TypeChannel
Username@straightforward_ru
CreatedBetween 1 November 2023 and 31 May 2024— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live11 August 2026
Measurements held4
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 11 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/straightforward_ru

Growth

2,1292,1322,130.55 August 2026 — 2,130 subscribers6 August 2026 — 2,130 subscribers8 August 2026 — 2,129 subscribers11 August 2026 — 2,132 subscribers5 August 202611 August 2026
4 measurements spanning 6 days, net +2. 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 2,129–2,132 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
11 Aug 2026, 14:052,132+3
8 Aug 2026, 17:442,129-1
6 Aug 2026, 06:172,130no change
5 Aug 2026, 19:592,130first reading

Engagement

18 posts held, back to 6 February 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 2 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
156.8%
avg views ÷ 2,132 subscribers
Avg views / post
3,340
3 posts measured
Reaction rate
2.27%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
3
of 18 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
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 28 July 2026
Posts held18 (6 February 202628 July 2026)
Views total10,030
Reactions total228
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken7 Aug 2026, 16:56 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

655 reactions across 18 posts, in 21 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 45.3% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
29745.3%
🔥13320.3%
💔527.94%
🤯426.41%
👍385.80%
😭121.83%
❤‍🔥111.68%
👾101.53%
🤨101.53%
😐81.22%
🤝81.22%
😨60.916%
🕊50.763%
😍50.763%
🤣50.763%
👎40.611%
🤔40.611%
💯20.305%
🆒10.153%
🥰10.153%
1 further kind10.153%

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 18 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 655reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 18 most recent posts we hold, published 6 February 2026 to 28 July 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.

Telegram Stars

Stars received
2
across the posts below
Posts paid on
1
of 18 we hold a reading for · 6%
Most on one post
2
single highest reading

A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @straightforward_ru. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.

Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.

This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.

Counted over the 18 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 6 February 2026 to 28 July 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.

Recent posts

28 Jul 2026, 11:59 UTC≈3,510 views130 reactionsread 7 August 2026

Дорогие читатели! Вчера российское министерство юстиции внесло нашу организацию в реестр «нежелательных». Фактически это криминализирует нашу деятельность в России; подробное объяснение того, что это за статус, можно прочитать здесь. Несмотря на это прискорбное событие, мы по-прежнему считаем, что потребность в компетентных нонфишн-книгах о современной России никуда не девается, и будем продолжать их создавать. Ва

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24 Jul 2026, 12:16 UTC≈4,480 views36 reactionsread 7 August 2026

Есть работа! Мы ищем человека в команду, который помогал бы нам в SMM- сопровождении проектов и продвижении независимого русскоязычного нонфикшна. На вас будет редакционное планирование и ведение соцсетей проектов (Instagram, Telegram, LinkedIn и др.), создание и публикация материалов о книгах: анонсы, отрывки, мероприятия и книжные ярмарки, интервью с авторами, комьюнити-менеджмент, мониторинг и ежемесячный отчёт п

19🔥7🤣5👍3👎2

21 Jul 2026, 09:20 UTC≈2,040 views62 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Photo

Объявляем победителей третьего опен-колла StraightForward! Редакционный Совет фонда утвердил следующие проекты: Запретные чувства. Как война отразилась на психике россиян. Анна Морозова Танцующие на вулкане. Взлет и падение квир-культуры в путинской России. Р.Л. Брошенные. Путешествие по оккупированному Донбассу. Олег Артюшенко Подробные описания грядущих книг будут вскоре опубликованы на нашем сайте и в соцсетях

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12 May 2026, 08:54 UTC≈2,120 views41 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Photo

Ура! Наш третий опен-колл закрыт с удивительным результатом: на 20% больше заявок, чем в самый рекордный урожай летом 2024-го, огромное спасибо всем, кто поучаствовал. Мы в очередной раз приятно удивлены разнообразием и качеством идей. В ближайшее время наша команда отберет лонглист претендентов и начнет связываться с ними: можно ожидать письма в следующие две недели по указанному в анкете адресу от отправителя open

41

28 Apr 2026, 13:22 UTC≈5,420 views28 reactionsread 7 August 2026

Ситуация с книгоизданием в России ухудшается день ото дня, а потребность в литературе, которая прямо и доступно говорит о сегодняшнем дне, только растет. До конца нашего опенколла осталось чуть больше недели, поэтому, если вы откладывали подачу заявки — самое время размять пальцы на клавиатуре. А если вы ищете вдохновение и вдруг оказались в Берлине, приходите в субботу, 2 мая, на презентации двух книг фонда — «Озар

🔥185❤‍🔥2🤝2🫡1

9 Apr 2026, 13:25 UTC≈2,970 views44 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Photo

Просто напомним.

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23 Mar 2026, 10:01 UTC≈62,500 views70 reactionsread 7 August 2026

Фонд поддержки документальной литературы StraightForward объявляет опен-колл для желающих написать смелую нонфикшн-книгу о современной России. Этот опен-колл предназначен только для авторов из России. Заявку на книгу можно отправить до 6 мая через защищенную форму на сайте. Отобранные Редакционным советом StraightForward стипендиаты получат грант на написание книги в 3000 евро и редакционное и агентское сопровождени

50🔥11🤔4👍3😍2

21 Mar 2026, 08:57 UTC≈2,890 views6 reactionsread 7 August 2026

Песня на выходные: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGxqjmU3A0

6

20 Mar 2026, 11:53 UTC≈2,310 views27 reactions2 Starsread 7 August 2026
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⛪️ 🪖Как Русская православная церковь стала органической частью путинского режима — а затем и войны? Фонд StraightForward и издательство Vidim Books советуют лекцию и книгу исследовательницы религии Ксении Лученко, которые помогут разобраться в эволюции института церкви за последние 40 лет. В рамках онлайн-лекции в Vidim Talks «Священный язык войны: как религиозные нарративы легитимируют насилие» 24 марта Ксения Лу

14👍6🔥5👎2

17 Mar 2026, 16:26 UTC≈1,540 views14 reactionsread 7 August 2026

⚡ Продолжают марш «Озарения молнии» Михаила Башкирова: The Insider опубликовал фрагмент книги, рассказывающий об аресте Александра Габышева: «Позже на суде росгвардеец, непосредственно командовавший арестом, с ужасающей простотой признался: „Мы знали, что Габышев одарённый и общественный, поэтому решили не убивать“». В «Горьком» вышла рецензия эксперта по потусторонним делам Романа «Мутагена» Королева: «Книга Баш

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24 Feb 2026, 13:07 UTC≈1,680 views24 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @thedailyprophetPhoto

Сегодня четыре года войны. И сегодня в Петербурге хоронят Колю Комягина. Черный, черный, беспросветный день. И я не знаю, как еще бороться с этим мраком, кроме как вглядываться в него, распутывать, устанавливать причинно-следственные связи, разбираться, пытаться понять, но не принять. Поэтому сегодня я напишу здесь о новой книжке, которую мы сделали в StraightForward. Точнее, она не совсем новая — уже вовсю продаетс

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23 Feb 2026, 12:22 UTC≈6,300 views28 reactionsread 7 August 2026

На днях Международную Ассоциацию Мемориал признали в России «нежелательной», и мы, по такому случаю, хотим напомнить, что книга Сергея Бондаренко, наоборот, рассказывает о Мемориале, который нужен всем — и прочитать ее можно бесплатно. Вот что говорит о ней автор: «Моя книга о мемориальском движении — а, как говорил Эбби Хоффман, “движение — это то, что движется”. И движение это, вообще-то, старше, чем российское го

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Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @straightforward_ru. 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.

Stars beside a post are paid reactions — Telegram Stars, bought with money and spent on that post. They are a different unit from reactions and are never added to them, here or anywhere else on this page.

Citation-graph rank

Citation-graph rank — 104,132 of 1,151,006entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.

Forward network

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 4 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.

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.

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 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“StraightForward” (@straightforward_ru), 2,132 subscribers as measured 11 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/straightforward_ru.

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.