Entity

Russia

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

As of 13 Oct 2026Last evidence 13 Oct 2026

What is happening now

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

    Reported event · first reported 7 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026 · 4 claims · best-carried claim: 15 separate publishers

  • Oil prices today: Brent crude declines as Trump announces Russia-Ukraine energy truce

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Kyiv pushes back on Trump's call for a new Ukrainian president as drones hit Russian data hub

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • If Russia had interfered with the Brexit vote, Nige would have been the first to know | John Crace

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

  • Russian attack on buses in Ukraine’s Kramatorsk kills at least 33 people

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

All 11 events and claims involving Russia

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 361 mentions on 13 Oct 2026, against 291 on 22 Sept 2026 (+24%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Russia yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 12 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Putin out as President of Russia by December 31, 2026?” moved from 8% to 4% Yes since 29 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

6,144 documents · 409 publishers · 37% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 13 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.37: about 63% 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.

UkraineChinaIranTrumpUnited StatesEuropean UnionFrancePutinGermany
  • Ukraine · 3,187 shared documents
  • China · 2,042 shared documents
  • Iran · 1,864 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,832 shared documents
  • Europe · 1,763 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 1,643 shared documents
  • European Union · 1,403 shared documents
  • France · 1,133 shared documents
  • Putin · 1,090 shared documents
  • Germany · 1,087 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +284% from 29 Aug 2026 to 13 Oct 2026, between 43 and 414 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Russia, day by day.

Market price, cited

4% Yes

Polymarket · priced 13 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 8% → 4% Yes (-4pts, from 29 Aug 2026 to 13 Oct 2026)

on “Putin out as President of Russia by December 31, 2026?”

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

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

On the desk: Geopolitics Desk

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.

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

    Reported event · first reported 7 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026 · 4 claims · best-carried claim: 15 separate publishers

    Show the 4 individual claims
    • Putin offers help to Iran to end Middle East war ahead of CIS summit | Hindustan Times · corroborated · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 15 separate publishers
    • Russia hit Ukraine power plant ‘immediately after’ Trump declared energy ceasefire, says Zelenskyy – Europe live · corroborated · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 13 separate publishers
    • Trump strikes diesel deal with Putin, reversing years of pressure on Russia over Ukraine war · corroborated · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 8 separate publishers
    • Zelenskyy hits out at 'gifts to Putin' after Trump announces deal for Russian diesel · corroborated · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 7 separate publishers

  • Oil prices today: Brent crude declines as Trump announces Russia-Ukraine energy truce

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Kyiv pushes back on Trump's call for a new Ukrainian president as drones hit Russian data hub

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • If Russia had interfered with the Brexit vote, Nige would have been the first to know | John Crace

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Russian attack on buses in Ukraine’s Kramatorsk kills at least 33 people

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

    reported by two

  • Massive internet outage in Russia after Ukraine reportedly hits largest Yandex data center in drone attack

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

    reported by two

  • UK Sanctions Crypto Exchanges Over Suspected Russia-Linked Evasion

    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

  • Russia–Ukraine war

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

    Open event

  • 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

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
6,144 documents · 409 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 13 Oct 2026
Measured
37% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
13 Oct 2026
25 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (12)

  • 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.

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.

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 13 Oct 2026.