ManifoldPlay moneyGeopoliticsLikely noiseUpdated 12m ago

Will Russia control the world globally before 2031?

As of Oct 12, 2026, 6:18 AM ET, Manifold priced this market at 3.4% (down from 13.0% 24 hours earlier). It had 250 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 100 mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as weak.

Market probability
3.4%
−9.6 percentage points
over 24 hours13.0% → 3.4%
Moving fastBig move, weak backing

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price — only a few trades sit behind today's move.

Price historyManifold

Source: ProbCast snapshots (Manifold)

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Weak

Consensus stability

Forming

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

100 mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

250 mana

Total volume

250 mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

Too few trades
100%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

1

Trades

1

Largest order

250 mana

250 mana traded across these 1 trades.

Too few recent trades to say who is setting this price.

Recent trade activity$250 traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

Why the odds moved

The probability fell 9.6 percentage points over the last 24 hours (13.0% → 3.4%).

No verified catalyst has been linked to this move yet. ProbCast does not attribute moves to news without evidence connecting the timing of a specific report to the repricing.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesDecember 31, 2030 at 6:00 AM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 12, 6:30 AM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±31 pts.

Reacting to newsLegacy movement classifier: noisy

What's happening

high classifier confidence
Reacting to news

The price is actively repricing on real volume. The number is still moving — don't treat the latest print as settled consensus yet.

  • Probability moved 9.6 pts in ≤6h on adequate liquidity

Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
4Low
Where the price path tends to go next1249 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet99%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityMedium· half-life ~2h
PredictabilityElevated irreducibility

Secondary read: leaning toward One big trader.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Market data

24h volume

250 mana

Liquidity

100 mana

Total volume

250 mana

Category
Geopolitics
Venue
Manifold
Open interest
—
Current probability
3.4%
7-day range
3.4% – 13.0%
Resolves
Dec 31, 2030
Change (pts)1H0.06H-9.624H-9.67D-9.6

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