The Russia Guy
- #1,988 in Politics
- #5,889 among international channels
- #8,009 among English channels
- #9,843 worldwide
Russia analysis and Russian media monitoring by Kevin Rothrock. All opinions and good/bad takes are his alone. Contact Kevin directly here: @KevinRothrock
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Subscriber growth
The Russia Guy has 1,317 subscribers. It lost 15 subscribers in the last 30 days (-1.1%). A typical post is seen by about 85 people within a day, an engagement rate of 6.5%.
Daily numbers, last 30 days
| Date | Subscribers | Change | Posts | Avg. post views |
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| 14 Nov | 1,317 | −1 | 3 | 57 |
| 13 Nov | 1,318 | +2 | 6 | 69 |
| 12 Nov | 1,316 | +2 | 7 | 92 |
| 11 Nov | 1,314 | +1 | 8 | 102 |
| 10 Nov | 1,313 | 0 | 11 | 92 |
| 9 Nov | 1,313 | 0 | 5 | 101 |
| 8 Nov | 1,313 | −19 | 1 | 102 |
| 9 Oct | 1,332 | – | 0 | – |
Views as a post ages
Average views at each age, posts of the last 30 days.
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- 12 h
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- 24 h
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- 48 h
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- 3 days
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When it posts
Times in UTC. 58 posts in 90 days.
Recent posts
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Poland will stop making additional contributions to PURL, a program that buys U.S. weapons for Ukraine, Prime Minister Donald Tusk says. He cited Poland's budget deficit and heavy spending on its own defense, while stressing that other aid to Kyiv continues. https://t.me/vottaktv/84075 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/zWhY6Qm
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Trump is going ahead with the unprecedented three-way talks next week in China with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. For the Kremlin, it’s a chance to pose as a peer of Washington and Beijing, despite [gestures at everything except nukes]. https://apnews.com/article/trump-xi-putin-summit-china-5fe92253ef38100bae913834a9b74d72 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/PyoUEKA
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On this week’s Naked Pravda, the great Max Seddon talks about his “wrong man” thriller, “The Putin Whisperers,” which was the cover story in FT Weekend Magazine last month and became a kind of Rorschach test for commentators on the war in Ukraine. https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2026/11/14/a-lawyer-a-banker-and-putin-s-ex-stasi-friend-max-seddon-on-the-back-channel-that-hoped-to-save-the-world via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/mi9HY4e
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A senior officer in Ukraine's SBU security service arrested in a probe into bribes that shielded scam call centers is out after colleagues helped post $1.4M bail. Serhiy Duka denies the charges and calls them revenge for the SBU's own probe of anti-corruption officials. https://www.unian.net/society/figurant-dela-karfagen-sergey-duka-vyshel-iz-sizo-i-vystupil-s-zayavleniem-13559085.html via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/HYEe5Ba
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Putin has placed dozens of foreign companies' Russian units under state management, and the new managers are helping to fund the Russian army, Bloomberg reports. For now, while the Kremlin courts the Trump admin, major U.S. businesses have largely been spared. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-13/foreign-businesses-putin-seized-help-fund-russia-s-war-machine via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/OfHIjdg
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Leaked Russian state records indicate that at least 450,000 Russians had been killed in the war against Ukraine by August 2026, an FT analysis finds. About 120,000 of the deaths with a recorded location came in one district (the one containing Avdiivka and Pokrovsk). https://www.ft.com/content/7377e093-d58e-4303-853a-5aa82b6a747e via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/BYXCQTt
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Four workers are dead and two are injured after Ukrianian drones hit an industrial zone in Volgograd, says the region's governor. The target was reportedly a major Lukoil oil refinery, where the attack sparked a fire and triggered lines for fuel in the city. https://t.me/vottaktv/84029 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/xGCVA36
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If Russia resorts to another mobilization, this will certainly be part of the story: At least a dozen regions have cut, delayed, or canceled special payments to the families of soldiers killed in Ukraine amid overstretched govt budgets. Folks are waiting longer to get less. https://t.me/istories_media/14172 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/S5Tt9sg
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Following a White House meeting with Melania Trump on humanitarian issues and family reunification, Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova says a joint effort to return nine children to relatives in Ukraine is planned for November. https://t.me/izvestia/255780 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/O6P0Wmq
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Holod reports that Russians at Berlin Brandenburg Airport are being approached after passport control for interviews on the war in Ukraine and life in Russia, e.g. mobilization and inflation. Staff do not introduce themselves and the interview's voluntary nature is not always explained upfront. https://holod.media/2026/11/06/rossiian-nachali-vyzyvat-na-politicheskie-besedy-v-aeroportu-berlina/ via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/SVYqKXa
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"A source close to the Kremlin" tells Farida Rustamova that Putin's recent phone call w/ Stubb & Støre (the one FT claims was all about medieval history, which Støre publicly denies) "was welcomed by Putin because he sees Norway & Finland as less belligerent than other European countries." https://www.vlast.is/p/putin-finland-norway-call via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/HMPo1TS
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Gemini Argon doesn't really measure up, either, and sadly it integrates with Aside only via API. via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/pfRYETl
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Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Alexander Darchiev has died at 66. Appointed in March 2025, the career diplomat replaced Anatoly Antonov after leading talks with Washington in Istanbul over bilateral diplomatic relations. https://t.me/istories_media/14234 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/tizQ9sa
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Latvia’s parliamentary presidium wants an ethics case against MP Andrejs Pagors for his Russian-language TikTok recorded inside the chamber on opening day. Officials cite rules that MPs can only use Latvian inside the building when addressing the public. ¡No se puede! https://t.me/sotaproject/120775 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/w8uFh6f
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Oops. Zelensky's chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov, will be fined for speaking Russian while on duty, Ukraine's "language watchdog" says. He did so while responding in person to unrest outside an Azov-linked National Guard facility near Kyiv on Nov. 2. https://www.dw.com/ru/glava-ofisa-prezidenta-ukrainy-budanov-zaplatit-straf-za-russkij-azyk/a-79887400 via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/cKW5Hf9
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Zelensky comments on the Democrats' U.S. midterms rout, highlighting the "lost ties" of the past two years (without naming Trump explicitly). He also raises the prospect of more/renewed financial and weapons aid from Washington. via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/4Nlp7Ym
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Oleksandra Kazarovitska, co-founder of a language school in Kharkiv, has died in a Russian detention center in Simferopol after 3 months in solitary. She'd come to Crimea to help her parents & was arrested after cops dug through her correspondence. Russia claims she took her own life. She was 44. https://memopzk.org/news/v-sizo-sevastopolya-pogibla-prepodavatelnicza-iz-harkova/ via Kevin Rothrock https://ift.tt/Xwa9YQT
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Questions about The Russia Guy
How many subscribers does The Russia Guy have?
The Russia Guy (@krothrock) has 1,317 subscribers as of November 14, 2026.
Is The Russia Guy growing?
Not right now. It lost 15 subscribers in the last 30 days (-1.1%).
How many people see a post on The Russia Guy?
A typical post gets about 85 views within 24 hours, roughly 6% of its subscribers (the ERR).
What is The Russia Guy about?
It is listed in Politics, and posts mostly in English. The channel describes itself as: “Russia analysis and Russian media monitoring by Kevin Rothrock. All opinions and good/bad takes are his alone. Contact Kevin directly here: @KevinRothrock”
Where does The Russia Guy rank?
By subscribers it is #1,988 in Politics, #5,889 among international channels, #8,009 among English channels, #9,843 worldwide.
Does The Russia Guy post ads?
None of its 58 posts in the last 30 days carried an ad label such as #ad or Sponsored. Unlabelled promotions can’t be detected.
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