Entity

Russia

The world's largest country by area — a nuclear power and major oil-and-gas exporter.

As of 9 Oct 2026Last evidence 9 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Russian strike on buses kills at least 30, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Russia says it properly informed WHO of plague institute worker's death, blasts media coverage

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Bank of Russia greenlights country’s first crypto exchanges and depositories

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • European Parliament Demands Tougher China Policy Over Trade, Taiwan and Russia

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • North Korea criticises US support for Taiwan, pledges backing for Russia

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

All 16 events and claims involving Russia

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 355 mentions on 9 Oct 2026, against 231 on 18 Sept 2026 (+54%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Russia yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 8 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Ukraine signs peace deal with Russia before 2027?” moved from 14% to 8% Yes since 25 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

5,720 documents · 388 publishers · 36% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 9 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.355: about 65% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 3 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Russia

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.

UkraineChinaTrumpUnited StatesEuropean UnionAIFranceGermany
  • Ukraine · 2,782 shared documents
  • China · 2,166 shared documents
  • Europe · 1,577 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Trump · 1,549 shared documents
  • United States · 1,478 shared documents
  • Oil · 1,389 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • European Union · 1,247 shared documents
  • AI · 1,123 shared documents
  • France · 1,048 shared documents
  • Germany · 976 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +859% from 25 Aug 2026 to 9 Oct 2026, between 37 and 414 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Russia, day by day.

Market price, cited

8% Yes

priced 9 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 14% → 8% Yes (-6pts, from 25 Aug 2026 to 9 Oct 2026)

on “Ukraine signs peace deal with Russia before 2027?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Russia

“Ukraine signs peace deal with Russia before 2027?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/64ff12ea4d3a4bedc254a871 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name russia.

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

Events involving Russia

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.

  • Russian strike on buses kills at least 30, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Russia says it properly informed WHO of plague institute worker's death, blasts media coverage

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Bank of Russia greenlights country’s first crypto exchanges and depositories

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • European Parliament Demands Tougher China Policy Over Trade, Taiwan and Russia

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea criticises US support for Taiwan, pledges backing for Russia

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Russia–Ukraine war

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 5 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Bulgaria's president blames Russia's war in Ukraine for worsening security environment in Black Sea

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Ukraine-Russia war latest: Germany at risk of violent conflict with Putin as war enters ‘new, more dangerous’ phase

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Japan sanctions Garantex, freezing assets of exchange tied to $96B in crypto transactions

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Germany's Merz visits Kyiv as Russia steps up attacks on Ukrainian cities

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Russia strikes Kyiv’s northern bridge in a new tactic to disrupt life in the Ukrainian capital

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

    corroborated

  • US-Russia talks on Ukraine involve multi-billion dollar oil deal, NYT reports

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Russia pledges to continue massive strikes on Kyiv, urges foreign diplomats to leave city

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

    corroborated

  • Election: parliament & russia

    Registered event · reported 28 Jul 2026 to 23 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Election: democratic party & liberal democratic party

    Registered event · reported 17 Aug 2026 to 2 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Putin offers help to Iran to end Middle East war ahead of CIS summit | Hindustan Times

    Reported claim · first reported date not on file · 1 claim · publishers not read on this page

    corroborated · not read on this page: its date and members come from the record's node door

Walk the record from Russia

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Russia

Entity.

Evidence
5,720 documents · 388 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 16 Dec 1993, last seen 9 Oct 2026
Measured
36% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
9 Oct 2026
26 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (13)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (3)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Russia, 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.

Other markets materially about Russia

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

1 more open market joined to Russia but not about it
  • 14.5% Yes

    “NATO downs another Russian drone by October 15?”

    Polymarket · priced 9 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · closes 15 Oct 2026

What it connects to

Related records.

Ask about RussiaWatch Russia

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 9 Oct 2026.