Top Newspapers Websites in Russia

Name: Top websites in Russia (Newspapers)
Creator: Semrush
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Based on data from the Semrush Traffic Analytics tool, this page reveals the most visited websites. We will be updating this list on a monthly basis, so you can keep track of all the market shifts and spot changes in user interest.

Most Visited Newspapers Websites in Russia, Updated March 2026

March 2026

Domain

Visits

Desktop share

Mobile share

MoM

YoY

Main Traffic Source

youtube.com

905.89M

68.5%620.51M

31.5%285.38M

↑15.33%

↓40.38%

Direct

wikipedia.org

86.44M

62.5%54.02M

37.5%32.42M

↓1.13%

↓39.15%

Search

instagram.com

31.03M

64.5%20.01M

35.5%11.01M

↓4.01%

↓24.83%

Direct

ria.ru

28.63M

34.65%9.92M

65.35%18.71M

↑17.45%

↓34%

Direct

rambler.ru

27.75M

59.61%16.54M

40.39%11.21M

↑16.99%

↓41.28%

Direct

lenta.ru

23.7M

40.09%9.5M

59.91%14.2M

↑6.11%

↓32.31%

Direct

gazeta.ru

9.61M

31.02%2.98M

68.98%6.63M

↓3.1%

↓27.61%

Direct

sport-express.ru

7.13M

33.46%2.38M

66.54%4.74M

↓11.29%

↓41.86%

Direct

vz.ru

5.7M

24.74%1.41M

75.26%4.29M

↓11.96%

↓24.65%

Direct

interfax.ru

4.27M

29.65%1.27M

70.35%3.01M

↑29.38%

↓40.68%

Direct

ura.news

4.21M

31.56%1.33M

68.44%2.88M

↓3.69%

↓35.31%

Direct

rg.ru

4.09M

56.25%2.3M

43.75%1.79M

↑18.79%

↓37.98%

Direct

imdb.com

3.99M

73.62%2.94M

26.38%1.05M

↓6.39%

↓10.26%

Direct

meduza.io

3.9M

51.19%2M

48.81%1.91M

↑37.14%

↓43.99%

Direct

rt.com

3.47M

42.74%1.48M

57.26%1.99M

↓13.5%

↓46.06%

Direct

bbc.com

3.46M

36.25%1.25M

63.75%2.2M

↑16.74%

↓40.09%

Direct

iz.ru

2.8M

54.16%1.52M

45.84%1.28M

↑20.66%

↓49.29%

Direct

eadaily.com

2.44M

25.31%618.78K

74.69%1.83M

↓41.64%

↓11.49%

Direct

business-gazeta.ru

2.41M

34.58%832.76K

65.42%1.58M

↓28.17%

↓7.6%

Direct

tsargrad.tv

2.41M

46.87%1.13M

53.13%1.28M

↑2.68%

↓31.03%

Direct

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Key Insights on Top Newspapers Websites in Russia on March 2026

As of March 2026, youtube.com leads Newspapers in Russia with 905.89M monthly visits. Its audience skews desktop-first (68.5% desktop / 68.5% mobile), and traffic is up month over month 15.33% and down year over year -40.38%. wikipedia.org holds second with 86.44M visits and a desktop-leaning mix (62.5% desktop / 37.5% mobile), while instagram.com ranks third with 31.03M visits.

Across the leaders, sudoku.name is the most mobile-first (100% of visits), whereas meme-police.ru is the most desktop-reliant (100%). Momentum favors hauswerk.pro in the latest month (2,205.22%), while tvzvezda.ru shows the steepest pullback.

Acquisition patterns also differ: youtube.com is driven primarily by search, youtube.com by direct, and youtube.com by referral; overall, 76 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 22 are search-led, and 2 lean on social.

These insights come from the Traffic & Market Toolkit, enriched with extensive clickstream data.

Our AI algorithms analyze petabytes of information from a blend of proprietary and external data pools, reflecting the online activities of over 200 million anonymized users.

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Top Newspapers Websites in Russia