How much of the news here is about each issue today, and how it sounds, compared with the past 4 weeks. From 836 articles by the country’s own news sites over the last 7 days. How we read the news

Share of the coverage

1. Democracy and elections
   6.1% of the news · usually 4.2% · 51 articles
   • Bottoms to focus on healthcare and other affordability issues (valdostadailytimes.com)
   • Русский мир Александра Дугина (rferl.org)

   Survey · Apr 2026 6% name “Threats to democracy (for example through information manipulation)” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

2. War and security
   2.6% of the news · usually 3.6% · 22 articles
   • Аркадий Бабченко: говорить надо о том, что в России нет армии (rferl.org)
   • Азербайджан отмечает День Победы (ru.apa.az)

   Survey · Apr 2026 10% name “The conflict in the Middle East” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

   Survey · Apr 2026 5% name “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

   Survey · Apr 2026 4% name “Security and defence” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

3. Jobs and work
   0.8% of the news · usually 0.5% · 1.6× usual · 7 articles

   Survey · Apr 2026 24% name “Unemployment” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

4. Cost of living
   0.7% of the news · usually 0.4% · 1.7× usual · 6 articles

   Survey · Apr 2026 39% name “Rising prices / inflation / cost of living” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

   Survey · Apr 2026 17% name “The economic situation” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

   Survey · Apr 2026 4% name “Housing” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

5. Immigration
   0.7% of the news · usually 0.8% · 6 articles

   Survey · Apr 2026 16% name “Immigration” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

6. Climate
   0.5% of the news · usually 0.1% · 4.0× usual · 4 articles

   Survey · Apr 2026 6% name “The environment and risks related to climate change” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

7. AI
   0.2% of the news · usually 0.3% · 2 articles
8. Health
   0.1% of the news · usually 0.7% · 1 articles
   • ВОЗ даст рекомендации из-за распространения нового штамма COVID-19 (sputnik-georgia.ru)

   Survey · Apr 2026 17% name “Health” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

How the news sounds

• Tone−1.0positive minus negative words per 100usually −1.1The GDELT Project
• Anxiety1.0× usual2.0 words per 1,000usually 2.0The GDELT Project
• Fear1.0× usual0.3 words per 1,000usually 0.3The GDELT Project
• Anger1.0× usual8.0 words per 1,000usually 8.4The GDELT Project
• Sadness1.0× usual5.1 words per 1,000usually 5.4The GDELT Project
• Happiness1.0× usual5.4 words per 1,000usually 5.4The GDELT Project
• Financial uncertainty1.1× usual5.6 words per 1,000usually 5.3The GDELT Project

News coverage in more than 100 languages, machine-translated and counted with English word lists, from The GDELT Project.