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Putin to address nation on eve of parliamentary elections

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced the televised speech scheduled for September 16.

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Putin to address nation on eve of parliamentary elections

What this story says

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin will deliver a televised address to the nation on September 16 at 6 p.m. Moscow time.
  • The address is in anticipation of the upcoming parliamentary elections.
  • Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced the president's speech.
  • The parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place from September 18 to 20.

Who covered it

Left 31%(68)Centre 38%(85)Right 31%(69)

Percentages are shares of the 222 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 339 of the 561 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

57/100

Hype

20/100

561 sources · methodology

Missing from the left

Only 68 of the 222 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to deliver a televised address to the nation on September 16 at 6 p.m. Moscow time. The speech is in anticipation of the upcoming parliamentary elections, which will take place from September 18 to 20. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced the president's planned address.

Disagreement on election details

Ilta-Sanomat reports that Russia refers to the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia as Donbas and Novorossiya. According to Ilta-Sanomat, Russia states that residents of these areas will participate in the elections for the first time. Ilta-Sanomat also notes that Russia claims these regions as its own, even those it does not fully control. Dnevni list Danas reports that more than four million voters have registered for remote electronic voting, according to Central Election Commission chairwoman Ella Pamfilova, as transmitted by RIA Novosti.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated digests mention that Russia refers to the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia as Donbas and Novorossiya, or that Russia claims these regions as its own even if not fully controlled, as reported by Ilta-Sanomat.

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Coverage settled. We checked this 14 times and stopped on 21 Sept 2026, 21:30. The figures above are what it finished at.

How other outlets pictured it

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Dnevni list DanasLeft

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

68 rated outlets

  • The left-leaning outlets sampled reported that Russia's parliamentary elections were taking place over three days, from 18 to 20 September. They noted that the vote was the first since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. The main Kremlin party, United Russia, was expected to win.
  • Several reports mentioned that President Vladimir Putin linked the election to support for the war in Ukraine, urging citizens to vote. Some outlets highlighted that the only party opposing the war had been banned from competing.
  • Dnevni list Danas and La Presse published full reports. Danas included comments from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov about Putin's address being a traditional practice. La Presse quoted a Muscovite and a Carnegie Centre analyst on Putin's political positioning.

Centre

85 rated outlets

  • The centre-rated report from Ilta-Sanomat led with Putin speaking on television that evening about the parliamentary elections. It stated that the Russian president would deliver a televised speech at 6 p.m. local time in connection with the upcoming Russian parliamentary elections, according to TASS. The report noted that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed this. Ilta-Sanomat also explained that Russia refers to the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia as Donbas and Novorossiya, and that residents of these areas would participate for the first time. The report added that Russia claims these regions as its own, even those it does not fully control.

Right

69 rated outlets

  • The right-rated reports focused on the announcement of President Putin's televised address ahead of the parliamentary elections. Sources including news-pravda.com, topwar.ru, vz.ru, and Interfax.ru stated that Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, announced the president would speak on television. These reports consistently mentioned the address would take place at 6 p.m. Moscow time on September 16, in anticipation of the elections scheduled for September 18-20. Interfax.ru described the address as a 'traditional television message'.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Putin to address nation on eve of parliamentary elections?
Of the 222 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 31% are rated left, 38% are rated centre, 31% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 561. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Putin to address nation on eve of parliamentary elections left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 222 rated outlets on this story, 31% are rated left, 38% are rated centre, 31% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Putin to address nation on eve of parliamentary elections biased?
Putin to address nation on eve of parliamentary elections is one event reported by 561 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Putin to address nation on eve of parliamentary elections?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Putin to address nation on eve of parliamentary elections?
561 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
When will Vladimir Putin address the nation?
Russian President Vladimir Putin will deliver a televised address to the nation on September 16 at 6 p.m. Moscow time. This was announced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
What is the reason for Putin's address?
The address is in anticipation of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Russia. These elections are scheduled to take place over three days, from September 18 to September 20.
Who announced the president's speech?
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that President Vladimir Putin would deliver a televised address to the nation. He stated this to journalists.

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