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/Country
Russia
48/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 85% of countries
#24 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention48
- Adoption · single source10
- Regulation30
- Problems and attacks52
- Opportunities59
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents41
6 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure29
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 9.9% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
AI compute capacity: 1,772 (2026-11) · Epoch AI — GPU Clusters
Missing safeguards76
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -1.20 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -1.27 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.44 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
67
Exposure to threats
71
as a target 60 · as a cause 82
Open and exposedMedia coverage: high (6,657 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 59.6 (as a target) + 50% × 81.7 (as a cause) = 70.7
Reported cyber attacks against institutions and foreign disinformation
Social media monitoring, government disinformation, AI surveillance, spyware, internet shutdowns
What protects
Government access to personal data (V-Dem, expert scale)26
Rule of law (0-100 score)38
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Shown alongside, not subtracted from the exposure
What we cannot see
We count reported cyber attacks, not all those that happened; there is no worldwide measure of threats made with AI; for surveillance and spyware the sources stop at 2022-2024.
Examples
Examples, not a count
Incidents where the state uses AI
- Ukrainian AI-powered drones decimate Russian war planes (in the incident list of this card)2025
- Pro-Ukrainian hackers use AI-generated decoy documents to infiltrate Russian defence industry (in the incident list of this card)2025
- Moscow arrests attendees of a Russian opposition politician's funeral using facial recognition (in the incident list of this card)2024
- Ukraine robot-only force attacks Russian troops (in the incident list of this card)2024
/What we cannot see
Incidents never reported by the press · reports of serious incidents sent to the authorities and not published · systems registered in the non-public part of the EU database.
/Incidents by period
in the country0
last 6 months
0
6-12 months ago
0
12-24 months ago
+ 6 with only the year
/Reported incidents
6 in 24 months2025
Ukrainian AI-powered drones decimate Russian war planes (opens in a new tab)severity: serious · partly estimated from the textComputer visionAutonomous vehicles and robotics
Also reported by· 4 articles from 4 outlets
2025
Russian humanoid AI robot collapses on debut (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textAutonomous vehicles and robotics
Also reported by· 4 articles from 4 outlets
- nytimes.com (opens in a new tab) · 12 Nov 2025
- nypost.com (opens in a new tab) · 13 Nov 2025
- euronews.com (opens in a new tab) · 13 Nov 2025
2025
Pro-Ukrainian hackers use AI-generated decoy documents to infiltrate Russian defence industry (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repository
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
- reuters.com (opens in a new tab) · 19 Dec 2025
2024
Moscow arrests attendees of a Russian opposition politician's funeral using facial recognition (opens in a new tab)severity: serious · partly estimated from the textBiometrics and surveillance
place: Moscowthe source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: Russia (Moscow City Police) · from the deployer
Also reported by· 6 articles from 6 outlets
2024
Belgian photographer criticised for AI-generated Russia images (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repository
Also reported by· 3 articles from 3 outlets
- vrt.be (opens in a new tab) · 19 Nov 2024
- abc.net.au (opens in a new tab) · 26 Dec 2024
- cryptorank.io (opens in a new tab)
2024
Ukraine robot-only force attacks Russian troops (opens in a new tab)severity: serious · partly estimated from the textAutonomous vehicles and robotics
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: Ukraine (Government of Ukraine) · from the deployer
Also reported by· 3 articles from 3 outlets
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-1.20
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-1.27
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.44
2025 · World Bank
AI-specific laws and authorities: coming with new sources.
/In the news
how it worksAI news mentioning the country · 7 Nov – 13 Nov
- Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook, Teams and AI services for over five hours (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 13 Nov 2026 · and 68 other outlets
- Xinhua Headlines: 7th World Media Summit opens in Beijing, highlighting media transformation in AI age (opens in a new tab)heraldglobe.com · United States · 9 Nov 2026 · and 26 other outlets
- Ireland. European leaders debate AI challenges for the first time this Friday (opens in a new tab)vosgesmatin.fr · France · 13 Nov 2026 · and 12 other outlets
- The AI plan of Russia's leader under drone fire: pressure on Russia's economy (opens in a new tab)tz.de · Germany · 12 Nov 2026 · and 11 other outlets
- Global powers head to Asia with trade, AI, security in focus (opens in a new tab)freemalaysiatoday.com · Malaysia · 12 Nov 2026 · and 11 other outlets
- Flugzeugfriedhof Arizona: Jets für KI und Drohnen (opens in a new tab)wa.de · Germany · 9 Nov 2026 · and 11 other outlets
- Wie Russland die KI vergiftet – und was dagegen hilft (opens in a new tab)hna.de · Germany · 11 Nov 2026 · and 10 other outlets
- Horror-Clown in Tarzo: Bürgermeister vermutet KI-Fälschung im Foto (opens in a new tab)kreisbote.de · Germany · 9 Nov 2026 · and 9 other outlets
- Munich against Palantir: Helsing reaches for Europe's war AI data (opens in a new tab)hna.de · Germany · 13 Nov 2026 · and 8 other outlets
- EU, double summit in Dublin: focus on Ukraine and artificial intelligence (opens in a new tab)sanremonews.it · Italy · 12 Nov 2026 · and 6 other outlets
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 5,770 in total, at most 359 in one day (29 Oct 2026).
5,770 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 49, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 49, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 49, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 48, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 48, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 78 · 2024 81 · 2025 82 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.