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@valdai_club
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1,231subscribers
+23 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1001412083075 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @valdai_club |
| Created | 11 February 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 10 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/valdai_club |
International news — 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 18 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 95% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 06:39 | 1,231 | +5 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 18:59 | 1,226 | +1 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 14:35 | 1,225 | +4 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 02:54 | 1,221 | +8 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 21:15 | 1,213 | -2 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 12:17 | 1,215 | +3 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 09:54 | 1,212 | +2 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 00:27 | 1,210 | +2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:23 | 1,208 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 22:00 | 1,208 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 15 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 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
🌍🌎 Despite mounting tensions and fundamental disagreements on the structure of the international order, the Global South grouping of countries is not in a hurry to sever its ties with the West. Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, describes the Global South’s uncertain position in a world defined by competition between Washington and its primary adversaries—Moscow, Tehran, and Beijing. …
🇰🇬 Central Asia is a region that finds itself playing an increasingly important logistical, economic, and strategic role in contemporary Eurasian and global affairs. In this environment, Kyrgyzstan charts its foreign policy course with an emphasis on healing long-standing rifts with neighbours and bolstering regional integration—an approach that would facilitate the country’s emergence as a fully-fledged pole in th…
🌏 The quarter-century anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) invites mixed assessments. 👉 On the one hand, the organisation has demonstrated considerable resilience and continues to attract new members. Sceptics have long argued that India and Pakistan, or India and China, are simply incompatible within a single format. And yet the frictions in these bilateral relationships have scarcely undermi…
🪩 The emergence of generative artificial intelligence was an event which resonated far beyond the world of art. Technologies capable of creating images, text, music, and video have attracted the attention of political players—states, platform developers, investors—those who have not traditionally been involved in aesthetics, the philosophy of art, or art itself. Behind this attention from regulatory actors lay an i…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan’s recent constitutional reform takes place within a broader process that goes beyond institutional reorganisation. International commentary has focused largely on the redistribution of political powers and state restructuring. Yet these debates often overlook another aspect: the reform's role in redefining Kazakhstan's historical narrative. Since independence in 1991, Kazakhstan has faced a challenge…
🇮🇳 In the aftermath of the US-Iran war, what is the outlook for the global oil market? Will new sanctions-related risks emerge? Finally, what strategies will oil producers and buyers adopt to manage geopolitical risks? These three questions are relevant for India because of its voluminous oil consumption and rising imports. India relies on imports for over 85% of its petroleum needs and currently consumes over 4.5…
🇦🇲 Independence prompted Armenia to question the meaning of its own existence. However, the Karabakh discourse quickly dominated both the domestic life of society and relations with its neighbours: the topic of Nagorno-Karabakh became the cornerstone of Armenia's national identity as an independent subject in international politics. The Civil Contract party's victory in the recent parliamentary elections in June 2…
⛔️ Darline Graham’s Bill: Are There ‘Black Swans’? The Russian news cycle continues to be dominated by reports of yet another US congressional bill imposing sanctions against Russia. This bill, introduced by the late Senator Lindsey Graham, was introduced in the Senate on April 1, 2025, and has periodically generated media attention. The primary focus was on the threat of tariffs of up to 500% on countries purchasi…
🇷🇺🌍 The Russian Federation is entering a new cycle of economic cooperation with African countries. In October 2026, the Third Russia-Africa Summit will take place, and a new Action Plan for the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum for the following three years will be adopted. This provides an excellent opportunity to both look back and assess future plans, particularly since each Russia-Africa Summit has elevated cooper…
🌏 The military-political confrontation between Iran and the United States is gradually becoming chronic. This means that a new source of permanent instability is emerging in southwestern Eurasia, one that will continually influence many processes in play across this vast global macro-region. This is especially true, given that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a permanent member of such important regional and global …
🎓 Is the Russian President’s goal of increasing the number of international students in Russia to half a million by 2030 overly ambitious or realistic? We know the following: 👉 According to the latest data, the number of international students in Russian universities will increase to 422,000 in 2026. 👉 The proposed federal budget for 2026-2028 allocates 10.6 billion rubles in 2026, 27.2 billion rubles in 2027, an…
🇮🇷 The 2026 war tested not only Iran’s military potential but also the analytical models used to explain its behaviour. It demonstrated that even a sufficiently thorough understanding of the Islamic Republic’s state institutions, defensive capabilities, and foreign policy strategy does not guarantee an understanding of society’s behaviour under existential threat. Iran has not collapsed; the analytical model for u…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @valdai_club. 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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“Valdai Discussion Club” (@valdai_club), 1,231 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/valdai_club.
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