News from Russia

3,368,632 news articles from publishers in Russia, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.

The busiest publisher in this slice is www.inmyroom.ru with 221,708 articles, 6.6% of the total, followed by kotofoto.ru, news-pravda.com. By language it splits into Russian (3,159,011), English (156,220), rus (13,218) and 16 more. Daily volume averages about 41,737 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 56,560 on 2026-10-16.

Fetch it

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=RU&date=today&sort=date&size=20"

No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description, publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text if you ask for it with full_text=true.

Count it

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=RU&top=20"

Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.

curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=RU&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"

Latest from this slice

The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.

Who publishes it

The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.

Languages published in Russia

What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.

Domain zones used by Russia publishers

Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.

Volume by day

How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.

Combine with other filters

# Russia, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=RU&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"

# Russia, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=RU&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"

# Russia, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=RU&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"

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