Overton Catcher

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Russian-language press published outside Russia. 23 feeds, 22 owners, 134 stories in the week to 9 October 2026.

23 feeds from 22 owners (23 rss), measured as one market because synchrony only means something inside one7. It is collected and measured, but it is not in the weekly report — that report is written in English and adding this market to it is a question of the report, not of the data. The numbers below are from the same run that builds it (this week).

The week

WeekArticlesStoriesSectionsOwners carryingIn a storyLargest owner
3–9 Oct2,54513401828%13%

“Sections” are clusters that are real but not events — the weather for forty cities, exchange rates, lottery draws — and they are counted apart from stories everywhere in this project36. “Largest owner” is the share of the market’s own week held by its biggest publisher, the baseline any single story is compared against.

Of the articles collected this week, 12% are not events at all — weather and listings, but also guides, shopping advice and columns. That reading comes from a small model trained for this project on labelled headlines, and it is reported rather than acted upon: the stories above are filtered by the narrower rule only36.

WeekArticlesStories
08-22 – 08-28——
08-29 – 09-042,30599
09-05 – 09-112,569108
09-12 – 09-182,489115
09-19 – 09-252,702114
09-26 – 10-022,547111
10-03 – 10-092,545134

Weeks in which the market was still being wired up show a dash rather than a number: a market brought up mid-week reports every day, just with a quarter of its feeds30.

Widest stories of the week

StoryOwnersArticlesLargest
Дело против основательницы хосписа «Дом с маяком» Лиды Мониавы прекратили за отсутствием состава преступления14/181513%
В Черногории задержан руководитель проекта «Рыбарь» Михаил Звинчук12/183212%
БПЛА атаковали дата-центр «Яндекса» в Рязанской области, он остановил работу12/182020%
Трамп и Путин договорились об экспорте российского дизеля в США и на мировой рынок10/181315%
Создателя "Масяни" Олега Куваева заочно приговорили к 4 годам колонии за эпизод с призывами к военным РФ сдаваться и дезертировать9/181020%
Лидера «Яблока» оштрафовали на тысячу рублей из-за надписей «За мир» и «За соглашение о прекращении огня» на бюллетенях9/181020%
Как минимум три больницы Иркутска ввели карантин после смерти сотрудницы противочумного института. Роспотребнадзор говорит о пневмонии9/18911%
США и Европа обеспокоены сообщениями о возможном случае смерти от чумы в России8/181421%

Owners are counted after word-for-word copies are collapsed into one voice5; the last column is how much of the story one voice wrote31.

Owners that appear together

PairScoreTogetherExpected
Meduza + TV Rain9.217596
Deutsche Welle + Meduza6.410863
Echo + USAGM6.0176120
BBC + Deutsche Welle4.53215
Deutsche Welle + TV Rain4.49968
Novaya Gazeta Europe + TV Rain3.94123

Measured over the whole archive rather than the week: the score grows with the number of stories, so it is read inside a market and never between two of them1529.

Which of the two goes first

PairShapeScoreStoriesMedian gap
TV Rain + Meduzaboth ways3.327848 min
Deutsche Welle + BBCboth ways3.369131 min

A pair is shown only if it holds in both halves of the archive35; the shape says whether one of the two is systematically first or the order is mutual16.

Feeds

22 owners, 23 feeds
OwnerFeeds
USAGM2
Meduza1
Novaya Gazeta Europe1
The Insider1
Mediazona1
TV Rain1
IStories1
Verstka1
Holod Media1
Agentstvo1
Echo1
Bumaga1
BBC1
Deutsche Welle1
The Moscow Times1
7x71
The Bell1
Memo1
OVD-Info1
Kedr1
Discours1
Its My City1

Every enabled feed brought at least one article this week.