mid[.]ru

State-media outlet. Part of the state media network. We first observed it cited in a chatbot answer on 13 Sep 2026.

State mediafirst cited Sep active

229

answers cited it

once per answer, however many links

claims reached

0 it is recorded as carrying

source-to-answer lines

carried it and was cited on it

critical incidents

cited while repeating a claim

assistants cited it

ChatGPT, Gemini, google-ai

Cited on claims it did not carry

Claims where assistants cited this domain although it is not recorded as having published them
Твердження	Вердикт	Citations	Цитували
“Kyiv falsifies Bucha victim list”	FALSE	45	5 assistants
“Ukraine obstructs peace negotiations”	FALSE	1	5 assistants
“Ukraine bans Orthodox Church activities”	FALSE	18	5 assistants
“Russophobia as a 19th-century British invention”	FALSE	2	5 assistants
“NATO and EU sponsor terrorism”	FALSE	1	5 assistants
“EU "loses" €65–135M/day from sanctions (fabricated counter)”	FALSE	2	5 assistants
“EU economy collapse claim”	FALSE	15	5 assistants
“EU demands Ukraine mobilise women”	FALSE	1	5 assistants
“Western strategy to dismember Russia”	FALSE	5	5 assistants
“Ukraine uses civilians as shields”	FALSE	7	5 assistants
“Western interference in Russian elections”	FALSE	19	5 assistants
“EU plans cyberattacks on Russian elections”	FALSE	5	5 assistants
“Special Military Operation not a war”	FALSE	33	5 assistants
“EU human rights agenda as interference”	FALSE	8	5 assistants
“EU demands Armenia impose visa regime on Russia”	FALSE	5	5 assistants
“Europe as a warmongering force”	FALSE	9	5 assistants
“Western preparation for military confrontation”	FALSE	2	5 assistants
“UNGA anti-Russian statement misrepresented”	FALSE	34	5 assistants
“EU elections are unfair”	FALSE	3	5 assistants
“UK and EU media sabotage peace efforts”	FALSE	6	5 assistants
“Anchorage Peace Agreement Claim”	FALSE	6	5 assistants
“Claim of EU-NATO hybrid war against Russia”	FALSE	2	5 assistants

These are candidates for the claim card: the domain reached an answer about a claim we have not recorded it as distributing.

Cited by assistant and question type

Citation counts per assistant and question type. Counts only: a share would need a denominator that lives in the metrics store.
Чат-бот	Total
google-ai	91
Perplexity	81
Gemini	30
Grok	15
ChatGPT	12

Counts of answers, one per answer per domain. Persona columns are never summed into a single figure, and a citation count is not a rate: the denominator lives in the metrics store.

By market

Where the citations happened. Counts, never merged into one figure.

Citations of this domain per market
Market	Citations	Share of this domain's citations
AT	28
ES	26
FR	24
US	24
UK	20
DK	18
IT	16
UA	16
DE	15
PL	14
TR	14
CZ	8
NL	6

Over time

Citations per run. Search-grounded assistants reshuffle their sources between runs for reasons unrelated to anything we do, so a movement here is not on its own a finding.

Citations of this domain per run
Run	Citations
a7_2026-10-07	45
d2_2026-10-08	39
a3_2026-10-01	33
a5_2026-10-06	19
C11_us_en_2026-09-13	18
d10_2026-10-16	17
d3_2026-10-09	15
n1_2026-09-22	10
f8_2026-10-22	8
a4_2026-10-01	7
f4_2026-10-22	6
d9_2026-10-16	5
C14_us_en_2026-09-13	2
e1_2026-09-26	2
C5_us_en_2026-09-13	1
c-13_2026-09-15	1
a2_2026-09-29	1

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