Reading rule. These charts measure how Russian media covered the occupied territories, as an object of study. They describe the Russian narrative and do not endorse it; casualty, atrocity and battlefield material is attributed as a Russian claim, not a verified fact. Shares are per quarter and multi-tag, so they exceed 100%.

Russian TOT media visualisations

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.

Public-safe aggregate layer. Charts are built from post metadata and theme or topic tags; the original Russian post texts are not published.

1. Theme share of coverage by quarter

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.

2. Theme × region intensity

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.

Cell = share of that region's posts tagged with the theme (posts are multi-tag).

3. The loudest channels

The fifteen channels posting most across the year, by number of posts. Out of 352 channels, a handful carry much of the volume.

4. Coverage over time

Posts per month across the year. A broadly steady drumbeat of coverage, rising to a peak in June 2026.

5. Most-featured named figures

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.

6. Rising vs falling themes

How each theme's share of coverage changed from the first quarter (Q3 2025) to the last (Q2 2026). Green climbed, red faded.