The analysis was carried out on a sample of publications in YouTube channels and Telegram for the last quarters of 2022 and 2023. On YouTube, the channels of the project “Popular Politics” and “Navalny LIVE” were analyzed. 

Calculations showed that over the last four months of 2023, 1,447 videos were published in Popular Politics, with the number of views amounting to more than 97.1 million.

In the fourth quarter of 2022, the number of publications was almost half as much - 795, but they were viewed by 266.7 million people. Thus, in terms of the total number of views, the drop was more than 2.7 times.

If we recalculate the average audience figures per publication for the selected periods, they will amount to an average of 335 thousand views per video in the fourth quarter of 2022 versus 67 thousand in the same period in 2023.

A similar trend is observed in relation to the Navalny LIVE YouTube channel. In the fourth quarter of 2023, 228 videos were published on this resource, a year earlier - 99. At the same time, the number of views decreased over the year from 77 million to 34.5 million, that is, more than twice. In terms of the number of publications, the drop is 5.14 times.

The number of subscribers to the Navalny LIVE Telegram channel dropped from its peak in October 2022 (58 thousand) to 47 thousand in 2023. At the same time, 134 publications of the Telegram channel had about 5.25 million views in the fourth quarter.

During the same period in 2023, 122 publications were made, while the number of views turned out to be more than 2.9 million. Thus, the average drop was 1.8 times. 

The audience reach on Alexei Navalny’s personal channel has also decreased. If in the fourth quarter of 2022, posts on his Telegram account were read more than 8.5 million times, then during the same period in 2023 the number of views dropped to 6.3 million.

* The Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) is included in the register of NPOs performing the functions of a foreign agent, by decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated October 9, 2019. The organization is recognized as extremist, its activities are prohibited by decision of the Moscow City Court dated 06/09/2021.

** Alexey Anatolyevich Navalny is included in the register of individuals involved in terrorism and extremism.