Seven views of how Russian-language media framed the occupied territories across four quarters, drawn from the 22,208-post monitoring corpus. Companion to the post-level database.
Share of coverage given to each of the nine themes, quarter by quarter. Click a theme in the legend to hide or isolate it. Civilian Life and Governance rise across the year; the non-Hub Front/SVO context series falls.
Within each region's coverage, the share of posts touching each theme. Darker cells mean the theme is more prominent in that region. Reveals where, for example, militarisation or governance content concentrates.
The fifteen channels posting most across the year, by number of posts. Out of 352 channels, a handful carry much of the volume.
Posts per month across the year. A broadly steady drumbeat of coverage, rising to a peak in June 2026.
Public figures appearing most often as an on-record speaker (officials, TV hosts, milbloggers), from the posts with a named speaker. One weather-broadcast presenter, whose forecasts were captured by the monitoring, is excluded as not an occupation-narrative figure.
How each theme's share of coverage changed from the first quarter (Q3 2025) to the last (Q2 2026). Green climbed, red faded.