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Mendeleevshchina!

Sergey Mendeleev's personal channel — crypto, politics and everyday Russia · period 2021Q4 → 2026Q2
"Mendeleevshchina!" (@mendeleevshina) is the personal Telegram channel of Sergey Mendeleev, one of the key figures of the Russian crypto industry: founder of the Garantex exchange (under OFAC sanctions since 2022), former director of InDeFi SmartBank, author of the "crypto-ruble" project and promoter of the ABCEX exchange. Running daily since December 2021, the channel mixes his investigation into the embezzlement of the WEX exchange, Russian crypto regulation and markets, and geopolitics with everyday personal posts. The author systematically avoids the war as a topic (under 4% of posts) — a distinctive editorial strategy for a politicized Russian channel.
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Who the author is

Sergey Mendeleev is one of the key figures of the Russian crypto industry, having built crypto-fiat exchange infrastructure in a sanctioned jurisdiction. What is known from public sources and the channel itself:

  • Garantex — founder of the exchange; since April 2022 the exchange has been under OFAC (US) sanctions for servicing money laundering.
  • InDeFi SmartBank — executive director (founding partner — financier Alexander Lebedev); in September 2022 he announced the Ethereum-based "crypto-ruble" project.
  • ABCEX — since January 2024 he has promoted this exchange as the venue for the "crypto-ruble" and crypto-fiat trading (desk-to-desk deals, a Telegram Mini App).
  • The WEX investigation — from the channel's first posts he has run a public investigation into the embezzlement of the WEX exchange and the case of Alexey Bilyuchenko (Ivanov); after high-profile publications the channel is regularly attacked by bots.
  • Editorial strategy — he systematically avoids the war against Ukraine as a topic (under 4% of posts), focusing on crypto, regulation, geopolitics and daily life.

Grand Narratives

Evolution of Top-15 narratives (share by quarter)

Top-20 narratives by message volume

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Narrative shift trends

Each row is a single narrative, each cell is a quarter. The brighter the cell (from red to near-white), the more often the channel spoke about this topic that quarter. Each row is normalized to itself, so even rare topics show their own bright peaks.
On hover you'll see two figures: relative activity — how loudly this topic sounded in the given quarter compared to its own peak (100% = the topic's loudest quarter, 0% = the topic was silent); quarter share — its absolute share of all messages in that quarter.

Narrative Catalog (26)

Narrative dynamics: All Rising Declining Episodic Stable
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