News in Russian
1,793,016 news articles written in Russian, across every country that publishes in it, free to search without an API key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is news.mail.ru with 125,199 articles, 7.0% of the total, followed by www.kommersant.ru, www.championat.com. By country it splits into Russia (1,327,540), Ukraine (259,004), Kazakhstan (56,326) and 22 more. Daily volume averages about 41,149 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 65,790 on 2026-09-01.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=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?lang=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.
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.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T21:56 | Менее месяца осталось у магаданских семей, чтобы обратиться за ежегодной семейной выплатой | magadan-news.net |
2026-09-07T21:00 | Овен, в работе и учёбе придётся проявить терпение. Телец, в финансовых делах стоит внимательно | birobidzhan-news.net |
2026-09-07T20:55 | Эксклюзивное интервью Дмитрия Демешина на телеканале «Губерния» | khabarovsk-news.net |
2026-09-07T20:35 | Казахстан вводит разрешения на поездки через QazETA для граждан России | nabat.news |
2026-09-07T20:22 | Новости 21. События в Биробиджане и ЕАО (07.09.2026) | birobidzhan-news.net |
2026-09-07T20:21 | Во вторник в регионе возможны дожди и туманы | chukotka-news.net |
2026-09-07T20:15 | В Сбербанке раскрыли главный признак мошеннических вакансий | deita.ru |
2026-09-07T20:14 | «Комплексная безопасность»: четыре стихии — четыре направления, одна общая задача — защита люде | chita-news.net |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
news.mail.ru | 125,199 | 7.0% | query |
www.kommersant.ru | 50,731 | 2.8% | query |
www.championat.com | 45,637 | 2.5% | query |
www.vesti.ru | 44,341 | 2.5% | query |
ria.ru | 41,636 | 2.3% | query |
life.ru | 34,394 | 1.9% | query |
24tv.ua | 34,118 | 1.9% | query |
www.m24.ru | 27,628 | 1.5% | query |
lenta.ru | 26,422 | 1.5% | query |
360.ru | 24,838 | 1.4% | query |
news.rambler.ru | 23,646 | 1.3% | query |
www.mvideo.ru | 22,792 | 1.3% | query |
news.ru | 21,421 | 1.2% | query |
tsn.ua | 20,284 | 1.1% | query |
www.rbc.ua | 18,586 | 1.0% | query |
www.kp.ru | 16,707 | 0.9% | query |
sportmail.ru | 16,299 | 0.9% | query |
www.pravda.ru | 15,418 | 0.9% | query |
radio1.ru | 14,819 | 0.8% | query |
www.interfax.ru | 13,201 | 0.7% | query |
zamin.uz | 12,373 | 0.7% | query |
sport.ua | 11,456 | 0.6% | query |
www.vedomosti.ru | 10,773 | 0.6% | query |
www.unian.net | 9,553 | 0.5% | query |
dnr-news.ru | 9,531 | 0.5% | query |
Countries publishing in Russian
A language is rarely one country. Filter by both when you need a specific national perspective.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| RU | Russia | 1,327,540 | 74.0% |
| UA | Ukraine | 259,004 | 14.4% |
| KZ | Kazakhstan | 56,326 | 3.1% |
| AZ | Azerbaijan | 36,129 | 2.0% |
| BY | Belarus | 23,756 | 1.3% |
| UZ | Uzbekistan | 21,394 | 1.2% |
| LV | Latvia | 17,747 | 1.0% |
| FM | FM | 10,291 | 0.6% |
| MD | Moldova | 8,963 | 0.5% |
| IL | Israel | 5,490 | 0.3% |
| KG | KG | 5,094 | 0.3% |
| AM | Armenia | 1,783 | 0.1% |
| EE | Estonia | 1,088 | 0.1% |
| CZ | Czechia | 1,071 | 0.1% |
| JP | Japan | 572 | 0.0% |
Domain zones
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| ru | Russia | 1,180,947 | 65.9% |
| ua | Ukraine | 179,045 | 10.0% |
| com | global commercial | 87,529 | 4.9% |
| net | global network | 85,860 | 4.8% |
| kz | Kazakhstan | 47,210 | 2.6% |
| az | Azerbaijan | 31,559 | 1.8% |
| info | information | 31,421 | 1.8% |
| live | live | 21,664 | 1.2% |
| lv | Latvia | 17,546 | 1.0% |
| uz | Uzbekistan | 16,130 | 0.9% |
| by | Belarus | 14,357 | 0.8% |
| org | organisations | 13,091 | 0.7% |
| fm | fm | 10,347 | 0.6% |
| news | news publications | 8,091 | 0.5% |
| md | Moldova | 6,900 | 0.4% |
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.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 15,919 | |
2026-09-06 | 33,185 | |
2026-09-05 | 31,273 | |
2026-09-04 | 50,399 | |
2026-09-03 | 43,813 | |
2026-09-02 | 47,782 | |
2026-09-01 | 65,790 | |
2026-08-31 | 41,034 | |
2026-08-30 | 30,597 | |
2026-08-29 | 31,432 | |
2026-08-28 | 52,965 | |
2026-08-27 | 52,777 | |
2026-08-26 | 37,344 | |
2026-08-25 | 20,883 |
Combine with other filters
# Russian, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=ru&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Russian, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=ru&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Russian, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=ru&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"