Undesirable to both sides: Russia and Ukraine have now both cut Monetochka's song from the new Spider-Man movie. A Russian bootleg circulating online also splices in an AI-generated bank-card ad, inventing a scene between Spider-Man, the Punisher, and The Product. https://t.me/PlushevChannel/37805 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/d0HpmWx

Channel
The Russia Guy
@krothrock
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cross-platform identity · Cite this entry
1,349subscribers
-21 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001178166139 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @krothrock |
| Created | 30 March 2020 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 13 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/krothrock |
Topic
International 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 18 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 87% 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.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Sept 2026, 21:19 | 1,349 | -3 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 06:36 | 1,352 | +2 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 22:16 | 1,350 | -2 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 04:39 | 1,352 | -5 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 14:57 | 1,357 | -2 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 23:54 | 1,359 | -4 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 16:05 | 1,363 | +1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 06:45 | 1,362 | -2 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 20:25 | 1,364 | +2 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 16:07 | 1,362 | -4 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 22:16 | 1,366 | -4 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:47 | 1,370 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:36 | 1,370 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 4 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 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
2 reactions across 2 posts, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👎 | 2 | 100.0% |
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 2 of the 20 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 2 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 4 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
The US used to assess that Putin wouldn't provoke a NATO country while still fighting in Ukraine. That changed this year, WSJ reports, citing anon officials who say new intel finds he could hit an ally as he's "squeezed" at the front & "under pressure" at home. AEI & CSIS also enter the chat. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-intel-finds-putin-could-test-natos-resolve-with-limited-incursion-e3b02e2c via Kevin Rot…
"Ukraine's military has taken nearly 2.5 million casualties in the war," claims Apti Alaudinov, deputy head of Russia's armed forces' military-political directorate and commander of the Chechen Akhmat units. He made the remarks to the state news agency TASS. https://t.me/SolovievLive/380174 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/MpfCBgk
Russia's Transport Ministry is rewriting its road-works rules to extend repair budgets to anti-drone defenses (eg, netting corridors, screens, shelters for civilians), Kommersant reports. The same money will also cover rebuilding roads & bridges damaged in attacks. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8864181 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/Yn2SIZs
from a biblical influence operation ©️ to a special sanctions operation ™️, we're officially onto The Next Thing via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/0bLHS7r
A Russian military court sentenced two Ukrainian POWs, Dmytro Horiainov and Roman Ponomarenko, to a maximum-security prison for 18 and 19 years for serving in the Azov Battalion. Russia has also added both men to its official registry of “terrorists and extremists.” https://zona.media/news/2026/08/06/azov via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/nPiuLc1
👎1
Two employees of Ukrposhta, Ukraine's state postal service, were killed and a mechanic wounded when a Russian strike destroyed its sorting facility in Pavlohrad, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, CEO Igor Smelyansky says. https://t.me/stranaua/244183 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/ieu21qm
Russia could deploy captured Ukrainian drones against Baltic critical infrastructure to create uncertainty over who launched the attack, Lithuanian military intel claims. Lithuanian troops have been guarding the Klaipėda LNG terminal & LitPol Link power line to Poland since June 18. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3013086/lithuanian-intelligence-says-russia-may-use-ukrainian-drones-to-attack-baltic-targets …
More than 41k Russians who fought in Ukraine (& their kids) have taken state-funded university spots under a quota that sidesteps normal competition. That's nearly a third of the 117k students admitted to funded spots so far this cycle, crowding out top-scoring, non-military applicants. https://t.me/Govorit_NeMoskva/67665 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/zYMSe5a
👎1
Buryatia journalist Vasilisa Shishkina, who reported on violations of mobilized soldiers' rights, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for treason. (What she actually did is unclear.) An appeals court effectively extended her sentence by changing her time-already-served calculus. https://t.me/dubkovreports/14 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/gvA1d5V
Two years after Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region, the fate of roughly 300 civilians remains unknown, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova told Zvezda News today. She put the total number who went missing during Ukraine's occupation at 2,176. https://t.me/zvezdanews/178943 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/awA7DFE
FSO guards & National Guard troops sealed off a Moscow cemetery for the burial of a major general said to have died in the Aug. 1 restaurant bombing that killed 5 people, according to the Telegram channel VChK-OGPU. Russian Ground Forces and Aerospace Forces flags were spotted. https://t.me/astrapress/121354 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/FR40Mtm
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @krothrock. 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.
Mentions
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
@astrapress · 343,6231 postАдвокат Дубков сообщает
@dubkovreports · 381 postФонтанка SPB Online
@fontankaspb · 389,6061 postГоворит НеМосква
@Govorit_NeMoskva · 54,1971 postАлександр Хинштейн
@Hinshtein · 215,7121 postPLUSHEV/ПЛЮЩЕВ
@PlushevChannel · 98,2641 postСОЛОВЬЁВ
@solovievlive · 1,101,8561 postПолитика Страны
@stranaua · 332,4531 postТАСС
@tass_agency · 567,5681 postТимур Ткаченко 🇺🇦
@tkachenkotymur · 17,5281 postZvezdanews | «Звезда»
@zvezdanews · 123,9761 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.
Cross-platform identity — Wikidata
A Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.
| Label | Kevin Rothrock |
|---|---|
| Description | managing editor at Meduza |
| X / Twitter | @KevinRothrock |
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 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Russia Guy” (@krothrock), 1,349 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/krothrock.
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.