Entity

Putin

Vladimir Putin — president of Russia.

As of 20 Oct 2026Last evidence 20 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Kremlin says Putin, Trump and Xi could hold a three-way meeting in China next month

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Trump says he is open to joining trilateral meeting with Xi, Putin

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Putin seeks Ukraine summit with Trump and Xi but refuses talks with Zelenskyy

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Russia–Ukraine war

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 16 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Putin envoy says Russia and US are discussing joint deals including on data centres

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 7 events and claims involving Putin

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 83 mentions on 20 Oct 2026, against 48 on 29 Sept 2026 (+73%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 13 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 10 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 3 claims first reported since 19 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,436 documents · 163 publishers · 13% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 20 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.127: about 87% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 4 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Putin

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

RussiaUkraineTrumpIranZelenskyyUnited StatesEuropean UnionFrance
  • Russia · 1,345 shared documents
  • Ukraine · 1,034 shared documents
  • Trump · 763 shared documents
  • Iran · 531 shared documents
  • Oil · 505 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Europe · 491 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Zelenskyy · 438 shared documents
  • United States · 427 shared documents
  • European Union · 417 shared documents
  • France · 310 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 83 mentions on 20 Oct 2026 with 48 on 29 Sept 2026 (+73%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +592% from 5 Sept 2026 to 20 Oct 2026, between 12 and 113 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Putin, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Putin yet. Ask about Putin

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

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For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Putin

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Kremlin says Putin, Trump and Xi could hold a three-way meeting in China next month

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Trump says he is open to joining trilateral meeting with Xi, Putin

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Putin seeks Ukraine summit with Trump and Xi but refuses talks with Zelenskyy

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Russia–Ukraine war

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 16 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Putin envoy says Russia and US are discussing joint deals including on data centres

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Bipartisan US senators call Trump-Putin diesel deal a ‘betrayal of the people of Ukraine’

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • The Guardian view on Trump and Putin: Ukraine’s future is not theirs to bargain away | Editorial

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

Walk the record from Putin

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Putin

Entity.

Evidence
1,436 documents · 163 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Sept 2026, last seen 20 Oct 2026
Measured
13% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
20 Oct 2026
17 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (6)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (1)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Putin, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Markets materially about Putin

Markets whose question is about Putin or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Putin and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 13 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 12 Oct 2026

  • 13 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 12 Oct 2026

  • 12 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 27 Sept 2026

  • 12 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 27 Sept 2026

4 changes recorded since 10 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 20 Oct 2026.