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Servant of the People faction leader in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arahamia, caused a real shift in public opinion — his media were quoted more than those of any other parliament member last week. This is shown by the media prominence ranking of deputies from Informator for the period 26 October – 1 November. The undeniable reason is that Arahamia commented on the events around Oleshky. Moreover, he was among the Ukrainian organizers of the ceasefire that made it possible to save a large number of our compatriots. He was also a direct participant in the events. As a result, Arahamia was mentioned in the media twice as often as Yaroslav Zhelezniak, who placed second in our ranking.
"As part of First Lady of the United States Melania Trump’s initiative to unblock Oleshky, today at 3:00 Kyiv time the largest ceasefire on the biggest section of the front in southern Ukraine began," — this quote from David Arahamia was the one the media cited most often.
What happened in occupied Oleshky and what Ukrainian media and the whole world wrote about for more than half a year — it’s hard even to call it a humanitarian catastrophe. It’s sheer madness. So resolving the situation is not a question of war or international relations, but something more. That is why Arahamia, who was closely involved in the events, was mentioned most among Rada deputies.
Arahamia commented on the evacuation from Oleshky day by day: how the Ukrainian delegation reached the town and began distributing humanitarian aid, and then how, together with the evacuated residents, they left for Anapa, from where people were to be transported through Belarus.
"The Ukrainian delegation, together with the evacuated residents of Oleshky, set off for Anapa. From there they will fly by plane to Belarus, and then reach home by bus," — another quote from the politician that the media cited most often.
Who made the biggest noise
The top three were David Arahamia (277,3 points), Yaroslav Zhelezniak (114,8 points) and Yulia Tymoshenko (60,1 points). Below — the full top-10:
David Arahamia, Servant of the People — 277,3 points
Yaroslav Zhelezniak, Holos — 114,8 points
Yulia Tymoshenko, Batkivshchyna — 60,1 points
Oleksiy Honcharenko, Non-affiliated — 53,2 points
Petro Poroshenko, European Solidarity — 48,7 points
Mykyta Poturaiev, Servant of the People — 47,8 points
Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine — 44,9 points
Oleksandr Fediyenko, Servant of the People — 32,2 points
Fedir Venislavskyi, Servant of the People — 31,3 points
Danylo Hetmantsev, Servant of the People — 26,6 points
Arahamia’s lead over second place is more than 160 points. Zhelezniak stays in the upper part of the ranking thanks to the budget-2027 topic: he spoke most about the passage of the budget in the first reading.
"Tomorrow there will already be a vote on the remaining considered amendments and the first reading of Budget-2027. Then it is handed to the Government and: the second reading and the final one is planned for 23–26 November," — Yaroslav Zhelezniak.
The silent majority
Of the 392 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, 289 were not mentioned at all during the week — that is the majority of the entire Rada. Only 103 MPs were mentioned in the media.
Among examples of the silent ones are deputies from the Servant of the People, Batkivshchyna, European Solidarity, Restoration of Ukraine and Trust factions, whose names were not recorded even once in this week’s monitoring.
Who made noise when
The loudest day of the week was 28 October. That day the news feed was shaped by the ceasefire in Oleshky — there were no recorded incidents there for 30 hours, according to Ombudsman Lubinets — as well as Zelensky’s statements about the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and preparations for winter.
Against this background, the peak of publications about deputies on 28 October fell on several people at once: it was that day Zhelezniak gave an interview saying that Zelensky 23 times spoke about elections, but the legislation was not changed, and Mykyta Poturaiev was noted for the announcement of his election as president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
"From today I assume with great honor and a deep sense of huge responsibility the position of president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. For the first time in the history of independent Ukraine its representative will head one of the most important international parliamentary institutions," — Mykyta Poturaiev.
Who was given the floor
Yaroslav Zhelezniak collected the most direct quotes — seven in a week, despite finishing second in the overall ranking. The leader of the ranking, Arahamia, had fewer quotes — five — and most publications about him are paraphrases of his statements rather than direct speech.
By factions the loudest was Servant of the People — a total of 692,2 points and 48 deputies in the ranking, which significantly exceeds the figures of other political forces. Holos scored 140,9 points largely due to Zhelezniak’s almost sole contribution, Batkivshchyna — 97 points mostly because of Tymoshenko.
"A contract that one party rewrites every month while the other reads it on Telegram is not a contract," — Yaroslav Zhelezniak.
One-day stars
For Mykyta Poturaiev almost everything written about him during the week came out on one day — 28 October, when he headed the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
Yulia Tymoshenko shows a similar picture: most publications fell on 26 October.
This is even more noticeable for deputies near the bottom of the ranking: for Ihor Kopytin, Oleksiy Leonov and Natalia Pipa, literally all publications for the week were published on one day — 26, 28 and 29 October respectively.
What they said
"I believe that we must lift the reservation from everyone, including deputies. From everyone in general," — Maryana Bezuhla.
"When I hear that in three weeks work rates increased threefold, it’s complete nonsense, a charade. It seems that those who make such claims want to treat all Ukrainians like idiots," — Oleksiy Kucherenko.
"The largest organized criminal group of smugglers in the country continues to steal money from the army. Under the deadly silence of the BEB and customs," — Danylo Hetmantsev.
How we calculated it
The ranking is based on monitoring 30 leading Ukrainian publications, among them NV, Glavkom, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, Ukrinform, TSN and others. For the period from 26 October to 1 November, 18516 publications were checked. Points are awarded for mentions in the headline, lead and body of a publication, with a deputy’s direct quote weighing more than a simple mention of a surname.
The weight of a publication in the calculation varies — influential and frequently cited sources contribute more to the final index. How we calculate the rankings — which publications we include, what we consider a mention and how we exclude people with the same surname — is explained in a separate clarification.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Всі згадали Арахамію через події в Олешках - рейтинг медіагучності депутатів ВР". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Informator.
