Channel

Russian Embassy in South Africa

@RussianEmbassyZA

On this record: Also posting the same content · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry

1,685subscribers

+25 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.

Register entry

Telegram ID	-1001166302787
Type	Channel
Username	@RussianEmbassyZA
Created	26 January 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded	6 August 2026
Last confirmed live	7 September 2026
Measurements held	10
Confirmed unchanged	1 time, most recently 7 September 2026
On Telegram	t.me/RussianEmbassyZA

Also posting the same content

This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 2 other registered channels, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.

Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.

Russian MFA 🇷🇺
@MFARussia · Channel54,397 subscribers Russia in Canada
@rusembc · Channel1,795 subscribers

Growth

10 measurements spanning 32 days, net +25. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 1,656–1,689 and does not start at zero.

Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)	Subscribers	Change
7 Sept 2026, 08:18	1,685	+5
2 Sept 2026, 11:16	1,680	+5
30 Aug 2026, 08:23	1,675	+1
27 Aug 2026, 10:07	1,674	+9
18 Aug 2026, 07:27	1,665	-1
15 Aug 2026, 12:44	1,666	-1
12 Aug 2026, 11:14	1,667	+4
9 Aug 2026, 16:21	1,663	+2
6 Aug 2026, 21:10	1,661	+1
6 Aug 2026, 15:36	1,660	first reading

Engagement

18 posts held, back to 6 August 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 2 pages 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 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

What this channel posts

Video runtime: 2m 38s
Average length: 1m 19s

Measured directly from 2 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.

Reaction mix

10 reactions across 7 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 40.0% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction	Count	Share
❤	4	40.0%
👏	3	30.0%
💔	2	20.0%
👎	1	10.0%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 8 of the 18 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 10 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 18 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 7 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

7 Aug 2026, 17:49 UTC4 views0 reactionsread 7 August 2026

Forwarded from @MFARussiaPhoto

🎙 Statement by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Overchuk following the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council (August 7, 2026) 💬 The meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council has concluded in Cholpon-Ata. It lasted for two days. First and foremost, the Heads of Government held a substantive discussion of two reports. The first report focused on food security in the Eurasian…

7 Aug 2026, 14:09 UTC32 viewsread 7 August 2026

Forwarded from @MFARussiaPhoto

🇷🇺🇦🇪 📞 On August 7, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the United Arab Emirates Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had a telephone conversation. The Leaders had an in-depth discussion of the current situation in the Persian Gulf. They stressed the importance of reaching agreements at the earliest opportunity to normalise the situation while taking into account the legitimate interests of the states in the …

7 Aug 2026, 11:59 UTC42 viewsread 7 August 2026

Photo

#Announcement 🚀 International Space Games 2026: Launch Your Journey to the Stars! Calling all elite engineering students, visionary researchers, and young space industry professionals from CIS, SCO, and BRICS countries! From October 26 to November 1, 2026, Moscow will host the prestigious pilot edition of the International Space Games (#ISG) at the ⁠Skolkovo Innovation Center. Initiated by the Russian Federation a…

7 Aug 2026, 10:59 UTC40 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026

Photo

#FacesOfVictory ✨ #OTD in 1941, 22-year-old Soviet fighter pilot Viktor Talalikhin made history in the pitch-black skies above Moscow. On the night of August 6–7, Nazi bomber formations launched a fierce raid on the Soviet capital. Met by ferocious anti-aircraft fire and Talalikhin’s squadron, the enemy took heavy losses. But during the dogfight, Talalikhin completely ran out of ammunition. ✈️ Rather than retreat,…

❤1

7 Aug 2026, 09:59 UTC44 viewsread 7 August 2026

Photo

⚓️ #RussianNavalHistory 🚢 #OTD in 1803, the first Russian round-the-world expedition set sail from Kronstadt on two vessels: the Nadezhda ("Hope") and the Neva. Led by explorers Ivan Krusenstern and Yury Lisiansky, their mission was critical – to establish trade relations with Japan and China while securing vital supply routes for Russian settlements in the Pacific. 🌍 Testing the absolute limits of 19th-century se…

7 Aug 2026, 08:25 UTC49 viewsread 7 August 2026

Forwarded from @sputnik_africaVideo

❗️❗️❗️Russia Has Been 'Constant Support for African Countries': SA's Former Minister "No other country has contributed to our development outside of Africa more than the Russian Federation," Lindiwe Sisulu, former minister of International Relations and the jury member of the International Leo Tolstoy Prize, told Sputnik Africa. 🇷🇺🤝 Russia offered South Africa and the continent education, hospitals, and a home dur…

7 Aug 2026, 08:02 UTC52 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026

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#RussiaHelps 🇷🇺🇲🇱 On 30 July, an official ceremony was held in Bamako, the capital of the Republic of Mali, to hand over 770 tonnes of yellow split peas to the Malian authorities as part of the Russian Federation's additional contribution to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The event was attended by Moussa Goïta, Deputy Commissioner for Food Security of Mali, Serigne Loum (Senegal), Deputy Country Dir…

❤1

7 Aug 2026, 06:42 UTC48 viewsread 7 August 2026

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🎙 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko took part in a live broadcast of the Dialogues programme on Komsomolskaya Pravda Radio (6 August 2026). ❓ Question: The West is preparing for a direct military confrontation with Russia. Europe is leading this policy. Why have our neighbours adopted such an approach? 💬 Alexander Grushko: The European Union has accumulated a vast number of problems resulting from t…

6 Aug 2026, 18:02 UTC58 viewsread 7 August 2026

Forwarded from @MFARussiaPhoto

🎙 Statement by Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia at a UN Security Council briefing on threats to international peace and security caused by ISIL (New York, August 5, 2026) Read in full Broadcast of the entire meeting 💬 We share most of the report’s findings and assessments. The growing threat posed by ISIL and its affiliates in Africa is a matter of serious concern, as are the increasing…

6 Aug 2026, 17:14 UTC58 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026

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⚡️🤩 AfroFest 2026 Opens in Moscow The AfroFest 2026 cultural festival has officially opened at the M.Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow. 🌍 The opening ceremony featured remarks by diplomats from Burundi, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, highlighting culture as the foundation of long-term #Russia-#Africa relations. The festival aims to showcase the full diversity of …

👎1

6 Aug 2026, 14:29 UTC59 viewsread 7 August 2026

Forwarded from @MFARussiaVideo

💬 Government of the Russian Federation: 🛬 On August 6, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin arrived in Cholpon-Ata to attend meetings of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council. He was welcomed at the airport by Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Erlist Akunbekov, Deputy Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan Meder Abakirov and Russian Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Sergey Vakunov. 🌐 The EAEU heads of …

6 Aug 2026, 13:59 UTC61 viewsread 7 August 2026

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🎨 He didn't just paint history – he rebuilt it! #OTD in 1856, the legendary Apollinary Vasnetsov was born. ☝️While his famous elder brother, renowned Russian artist Victor Vasnetsov, captured myth and folklore, Apollinary looked at the streets of Moscow and saw a time machine. 🖌 He was far more than a master of landscapes and historical painting. He was a brilliant historian, writer, and public figure who single-h…

Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @RussianEmbassyZA. 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.

Forward network

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Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.

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Republishes

Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.

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@sputnik_africa · 57,3581 post

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 5 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

Named by

Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.

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@rustradesouthafrica · 3151 post Правда за нами
@zarussia_1 · 90,1541 post

Names

Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.

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@government_rus · 168,1021 post Мария Захарова
@mariavladimirovnazakharova · 464,8771 post Григорий Лукьянцев
@MID_HumanRights · 3121 post Sputnik Africa
@sputnik_africa · 57,3581 post

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

Russian MFA 🇷🇺
@MFARussia · 54,397
Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 24 August 2026

Африка
@africamain · 39,865
Telegram ranks this channel #89 of 96 here — alongside 95 others — read 30 August 2026

This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 7 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Russian Embassy in South Africa” (@RussianEmbassyZA), 1,685 subscribers as measured 7 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/RussianEmbassyZA.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.