Valerie Hopkins ✓

@VALERIEinNYT · Moscow · joined 22 Aug 2007

@NYTimes correspondent covering Russia & Ukraine. Fmr Balkan flâneuse/@FT SE Europe Correspondent. Turophile & enthusiastic cyclist.

39 628Followers

10 326Following

48 875Posts total

105.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views15 042this account2 392median for 10K–100K

Reach, %37.96%this account7.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.35%this account1.50%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	15 042	2 392	6.29×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	37.96%	7.18%	5.29×
Engagement rate	1.35%	1.50%	0.90×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

43.8K1 Dec

815

71614 Dec

1.5K23 Jul

5.6K28 Aug

24.5K

27.8K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.44%1 Dec

6.44%

9.08%

8.66%14 Dec

1.61%23 Jul

0.34%28 Aug

1.35%

1.36%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.50%.

What the audience does

Likes61.5%748 in total

Reposts18.0%219 in total

Replies11.2%136 in total

Quotes3.5%43 in total

Bookmarks5.8%71 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Hundreds of Bosniak civilians were executed from the Mehmedović Pasha Sokolović Bridge in 1992. Today it is being used to honor one of the architects of the killing sprees with music, fireworks and an installation showing his military cap. A chilling message to the Bosniak who 27.8K views · 257 likes · 96 reposts · 11 replies 28 Aug 2026 Hundreds, mostly young men, marched through the streets of Zvornik, in eastern Bosnia, an area Mladić violently sought to “ethnically cleanse” of its Bosniak population. They scream his name as they pass by a local mosque. Similar celebrations, attended by local and regional 24.5K views · 216 likes · 89 reposts · 14 replies 28 Aug 2026 The Taliban have banned education for millions of Afghan girls. Times journalists examined classrooms where students, teachers and parents continue to resist by defying the rules. @ElianPeltier with incredible photos by Kiana Hayeri https://t.co/WMATO3yonw 5.6K views · 9 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 Ukraine has hit 5 warehouses belonging to Wildberries, a Russian analog to Amazon, as well as storage sites for other large retailers. Timur said he had been building his business for 5 years, “and it can just collapse in a week,” he said, a precarity that Ukrainians have been 1.5K views · 16 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies 23 Jul 2026 @VALERIEinNYT Іди нахуй разом зі своїми самарцями 716 views · 61 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 14 Dec 2023 @VALERIEinNYT I don’t know where you studied journalism, but you should demand a refund. 815 views · 74 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Dec 2023 @VALERIEinNYT Do lines like this have to pass through Russian censors before they can be cabled to New York? https://t.co/mWtjxil2W6 1K views · 64 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Dec 2023 In Moscow, the carnage Russia inflicts on Ukraine feels far away. But in a village in the Samara region, all I talked to knew someone who had been mobilized or volunteered to fight, and died. Here, the family of one soldier grapples with what he died for. https://t.co/T8xAI26Xbu 43.8K views · 51 likes · 17 reposts · 109 replies 01 Dec 2023