Top Newspapers Websites in Russia

Key Insights on Top Newspapers Websites in Russia on January 2026

As of January 2026, youtube.com leads Newspapers in Russia with 759.54M monthly visits. Its audience skews desktop-first (55.56% desktop / 55.56% mobile), and traffic is down month over month -13.95% and down year over year -42.15%. wikipedia.org holds second with 101.5M visits and a mobile-leaning mix (43.43% desktop / 56.57% mobile), while instagram.com ranks third with 36.14M visits.

Across the leaders, sudoku.name is the most mobile-first (100% of visits), whereas meme-police.ru is the most desktop-reliant (86.44%). Momentum favors brstej.com in the latest month (21,072.15%), while proekt.media shows the steepest pullback. On a yearly view, eco-vankovo.ru posts the strongest expansion (2,830.66%), contrasted with twitter.com (-71.94%).

Acquisition patterns also differ: youtube.com is driven primarily by search, youtube.com by direct, and youtube.com by referral; overall, 86 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 14 are search-led, and 0 lean on social.

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