Channel
@Russian_Dissident
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640subscribers
+468 since we began measuring on 14 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1003715724428 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @Russian_Dissident |
| Created | Between 1 February 2026 and 31 July 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 14 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 15 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 15 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/Russian_Dissident |
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 20 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 84% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026, 03:56 | 640 | +1 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 17:02 | 639 | +305 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 04:02 | 334 | +154 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 14:06 | 180 | +8 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 08:35 | 172 | no change |
| 14 Aug 2026, 21:31 | 172 | first reading |
12 posts held, back to 12 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 1 page 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 12 posts for this entry, the most recent from 14 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 5 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.
69 reactions across 12 posts, in 20 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 21.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🤣 | 15 | 21.7% | |
| 😁 | 9 | 13.0% | |
| 🤡 | 8 | 11.6% | |
| 👍 | 5 | 7.25% | |
| 💊 | 5 | 7.25% | |
| 😢 | 5 | 7.25% | |
| 👏 | 4 | 5.80% | |
| 🫡 | 3 | 4.35% | |
| 🏆 | 2 | 2.90% | |
| 🤯 | 2 | 2.90% | |
| 🥰 | 2 | 2.90% | |
| ❤ | 1 | 1.45% | |
| 🌚 | 1 | 1.45% | |
| 🌭 | 1 | 1.45% | |
| 💅 | 1 | 1.45% | |
| 🔥 | 1 | 1.45% | |
| 🖕 | 1 | 1.45% | |
| 🤪 | 1 | 1.45% | |
| 🤮 | 1 | 1.45% | |
| 🥱 | 1 | 1.45% |
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 12 of the 12 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 69 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 12 most recent posts we hold, published 12 August 2026 to 14 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.
Kalashnikov CEO: Russians were “conditioned” to fear guns Kalashnikov CEO Alan Lushnikov claims Russians’ negative attitude toward weapons and armed people was “imposed from abroad.” He argues that Russia needs to revive its “weapons culture” and learn to see armed people primarily as “defenders of the Motherland.” Russian Dissident
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German-Russian Z blogger Wjatscheslaw Seewald on the situation in Sochi: Fuel disaster in Sochi! 🤬 I can't and don't want to describe it as anything other than collapse people. Even at night, people queue for hours in the hope of getting 20 liters. We gave up today and drove home with no gas. Russian Dissident
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Russia threatens to “freeze” Ukraine this winter ❗️ Russia’s Ministry of Defense posted an image of strike drones with the message: “You’ll get a freeze this winter.” The post appears to threaten intensified attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Russian Dissident
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🇷🇺 Putin visits disputed Kuril Islands claimed by Japan Putin has made his first-ever visit to the Kuril Islands, travelling to Iturup — one of four islands controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan. Tokyo has strongly condemned the visit, calling it "absolutely unacceptable". The dispute has prevented Russia and Japan from signing a formal peace treaty since World War II. The timing is particularly striking: Puti…
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Sevastopol bombing ❗️ Russian security services detained 32-year-old Margarita Reutt. The FSB claims she admitted carrying out the bombing for money on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence. The device was reportedly hidden in a trash bin near a bench and detonated as the officer passed by. Reutt had previously come to the attention of authorities. In July 2025, she was charged with “discrediting the Russian Ar…
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❗️Terrorist attack in Sevastopol: former submarine commander reportedly killed The victim was reportedly Captain 1st Rank Robert Shageyev, former commander of the Ukrainian submarine Zaporizhzhia, who switched to the Russian Navy after the 2014 occupation of Crimea. Russian Dissident
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🇷🇺 Novorossiysk left without water after yesterdays massive drone attack Overnight strikes damaged main water pipelines in Novorossiysk, forcing the city to completely shut off its water supply. Russian Dissident
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Putin stated that Russia will respond "in kind" to "any attempts to seize its merchant ships." He arrived in South Sakhalin, where he observed exercises of the Pacific Fleet from the missile cruiser "Varyag." His main statements: — Russia will respond "in kind" to any attempts to seize Russian merchant ships. — NATO is "expanding" into the Pacific region, which is increasing the potential for conflict and tension,…
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Exile does not mean escaping the Kremlin Russian authorities increasingly open criminal cases against critics who are already abroad, including for posts deemed to be “fake news” about the war or for “discrediting” the Russian Army. Some are placed on wanted lists and convicted in absentia. The consequences can cross Russia's borders. A Russian wanted notice or politically motivated conviction can trigger additiona…
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🇷🇺 Russian Telegram admins fined for reporting on banking outage Owners of the Telegram channels “Прямой эфир” and “The Экономист” were each fined 30,000 rubles for posts suggesting that a major banking and SBP outage was linked to Roskomnadzor’s IP blocking. Roskomnadzor said the posts could “destabilize the socio-political situation” and accused the admins of publishing unverified information. Russian Dissident
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German emigrant to Russia and notorious Z-blogger, Vyacheslav Seewald, has travelled to Sochi with his wife for vacation. After finding three gas stations with no fuel and then facing an endless queue at the fourth, desperation is slowly starting to set in. So you don't have to sit through 15 minutes of german-speaking Russian nonsense, I'll summarize it for you: "Waaah, I don't understand why the Ukros are doing …
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❗️Fuel shortages have reportedly become severe in Sochi, with locals reporting queues of up to 12 hours at some petrol stations. Authorities have urged residents and tourists to avoid using private cars amid disruptions to fuel deliveries. Major fuel operators have introduced supply limits, while some stations have restricted sales to private customers. Russian Dissident
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Showing the 12 most recent of 12 posts we hold for @Russian_Dissident. 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.
Named by 1 registered channel — 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.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
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.
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 15 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Russian Dissident” (@Russian_Dissident), 640 subscribers as measured 15 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Russian_Dissident.
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.