Research
The Russia Program now publishes pre-prints—early versions of research papers shared before formal peer review. Pre-prints give readers early access to new data, analysis, and ideas on Russia’s politics, society, culture, and global role.
How Trump’s Peacemaking Rhetoric Is Shaping Perceptions of the Peace Process in Russia and Ukraine
Elena Koneva
Feb 9, 2026
Outsourcing Social Policy, Controlling Civil Society: Russia’s Presidential Grants Fund
Nov 28, 2025
What Do Russians Read for News, and How Can Independent Media Reach Them?
Alesya Sokolova
Sep 3, 2025
Prisoners of Assad: The dialectics of Russian and Iranian interaction with the Assad regime, 2015-24
Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
Sep 1, 2025
From Wages to Loyalty: Economic Incentives Behind Support for Russia’s Authoritarian Regime
Ekaterina Kurbangaleeva
Aug 14, 2025
Diverging allies in Syria: Russia’s and Iran’s grand strategies
Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
Jul 31, 2025
Russia's Politicized Law Enforcement and its Evolution
Alexander Verkhovsky
Jul 8, 2025
The Rise of Soviet Asian and African Studies in the Era of Decolonization (1950s-1960s)
Andrei Gerasimov
Jul 1, 2025
Competing Allies: How Russia and Iran Jousted for Influence over the Syrian Armed Forces in 2015–2024
Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
Apr 30, 2025
The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on the Dynamics of Russians’ Material Well-being
Vladimir Zvonovsky
Mar 31, 2025
The Special Military Operation: Awaiting an End
Gleb Zvonovsky
Mar 20, 2025
“I Want Udmurt Literature to Become a Part of Popular Culture”
Dmitry Oparin and Anastasia Shumilova
Mar 7, 2025
Cadre policy in Putin's Russia: Combining Soviet inheritance and neoliberal modernization
Victor Violier
Mar 6, 2025
Russia and the Collapse of the Assad Regime
Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
Feb 18, 2025
The Ratings Game of Vladimir Putin
Elena Koneva
Jan 31, 2025
TikTok as a News Platform in the Era of Global Citizen Journalism: The Case of the 2024 BRICS Summit
Olga Logunova
Jan 14, 2025
“WE NEED TO CARRY ON”: ETHNOGRAPHY OF RUSSIAN REGIONS DURING WARTIME
Public Sociology LaboratoryEdited by Svetlana Erpyleva and Sasha KappinenWritten by: Maxim Alyukov, Aida Belousova, Svetlana Erpyleva, Sasha Kappinen, Marina Kokshajskaja, Mikhail Krulev, Yakov Lurie, Natalia Savelyeva, Vlad Siyutkin, Oleg Zhuravlev
Dec 17, 2024
Did Wagner Group prove an effective tool for Russian foreign policy?
Dr. Antonio Giustozzi and David Lewis
Dec 9, 2024
The Economic Divide of War: How the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Reshaped Regional Prosperity
Vladimir Zvonovskiy
Nov 29, 2024
Under the RadarCrisis, reorganization, and clandestinization in Russia’s ecosystemof information influence after the invasion of Ukraine
Maxime Audinet and Colin Gérard
Nov 8, 2024
The Stage of Exile: Russian Theater Abroad and the Rebirth of Witness Culture
Yana Kraynova
Oct 22, 2024
After Prigozhin: Does Wagner Group have a future?
Dr. Antonio Giustozzi and David Lewis
Sep 11, 2024
A Second Front and the ‘Global War Party’: How Georgian Dream Talks about the West, Russia and theRussia-Ukraine War
Nicholas Castillo
Aug 26, 2024
"A Repressed Horse": A Tyvan Researcher on Horses, Borders, and Memory of the Soviet Past
Dmitry Oparin and Victoria Peemot
Aug 5, 2024
Winning the Home Front. Endless War or Peace and Demobilization? The Implications of Russia’s Defense Minister Swap
Kirill Titaev, Sergey Filippov, Ivan Grek
Jul 10, 2024
Legitimating Nationalism: Political Identity in Russia’s Ethnic Republics
Katie L. Stewart
Jul 9, 2024
How Has Putin’s ‘Special Military Operation’ Affected Russian Arms Exports to MENA?
Bradford Thomas Duplessis
Jul 3, 2024
Vietnam-Russia Relations After 2022: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities of “Bamboo Diplomacy” in A Multipolar World
Nguyen Ba Hai and Kazushige Kobayashi
Jun 24, 2024
Dubaigrad: Is Moscow Now the “Eighth Emirate”?
Diana Galeeva
Jun 13, 2024
A Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership?Rationales and Dilemmas in India-Russia Relations
Nivedita Kapoor
Jun 7, 2024
Russian Philosophy at War
Juliette Faure
Jun 1, 2024
Russia’s Spiritual Expansion in the Global South
Ivan U. Kłyszcz
May 27, 2024
Egypt-Russia Relations: Drivers and Dimensions of a Stable Partnership
Nourhan ElSheikh
May 13, 2024
Understanding the Russian Exodus to Dubai following the Ukraine Invasion
Natalia Savelyeva
May 8, 2024
Sources and Trends in Russian Foreign Policy Discourse: A Quantitative Text Analysis of Key Concepts
Iurii Agafonov
May 1, 2024
Under Pressure: Traditional Land Use in the Post-Soviet Sakha Republic
Sebastian F. H. Bouma
Apr 25, 2024
India-Russia Partnership: Resilient in a Transforming World?
Ankita Dutta
Apr 19, 2024
Regional Perspectives on Russia: Data from the Electronic Repository of Russian Historical Statistics
Gijs Kessler
Apr 15, 2024
“For some people, the issue of language is very painful, even to the point of self-racism”
Dmitry Oparin and Vasily Kharitonov
Apr 10, 2024
Islam, Orthodox human rights,and the ‘Destructology’ pseudo-science:Roman Silantyev's Trajectory
Alexander Verkhovsky
Apr 1, 2024
Russia’s Stance on Gaza in the Shadow of the Ukraine War
Dr Janko Šćepanović
Mar 28, 2024
Russia and the Global South, or the Mystery of Political Semantics
Vadim Grishin
Mar 14, 2024
Indigenous People: Conceptualization in International, Soviet, and Russian Legislation
Andrei Tarasov
Feb 9, 2024
The Effect of War? Kazakhstani Intellectuals’ Perceptions of Russia and the Question of Western Education
Dr. Sanat Kushkumbayev and Aigerim Bakhtiyarova
Feb 6, 2024
Is Mikhail Prishvin a liberal or a conservative?‘The Bard of Nature’ and his place in today’s ideological landscape
Boris Knorre
Feb 1, 2024
“Decolonization frees from some dependencies, but often brings others”
Sergey Abashin and Elena Srapyan
Jan 18, 2024
Heritage re-contextualization in post-Soviet Russia
Anna Gaynutdinova
Jan 16, 2024
Kazakhstan-Russia relationssince 2022:New opportunities in a changing geopolitical climate?
Aselia Orozova
Jan 16, 2024
What Underlies Moscow’s Good Relations with the US’s Middle East Partners in the Ukraine War Era?
Mark N. Katz
Jan 12, 2024
Brazil-Russia relations since 2022: Strategic partners without a strategic partnership?
Laura Trajber Waisbich
Jan 11, 2024
Doomed to repeat: how war became a national idea in Russia
Egor Sennikov
Dec 12, 2023
Gold, spirits and dead rivers: How the Shors, Khakas and Teleuts fell hostage to the wealth of their native lands
Alexandra Gaganova and Ilya Cheberin
Dec 5, 2023
Resigning Themselves to Inevitability How Russians justified the military invasion of Ukraine (fall-winter 2022)
PS LAB Team
Nov 22, 2023
Popular Imaginaries of Russia and Attitudes Toward the Invasion of Ukraine among Kyrgyz People
Asel Doolotkeldieva
Nov 10, 2023
Economic crime and illicit finance in Russia’s occupation regime in Ukraine
David Lewis
Nov 3, 2023
The Soviet State and Heritage Policies
Anna Gaynutdinova
Oct 25, 2023
“Everything I’m curious about must be in Tatar. Until it’s in Tatar, it’s not really mine.”
Dmitry Oparin and Aidar Shaikhin
Oct 18, 2023
Yulia Sineokaya: “The war put an end to free intellectual research in Russia.”
An interview of Yulia Senokaya by Juliette Faure
Oct 2, 2023
What role did ideology play in triggering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
Juliette Faure
Oct 1, 2023
The “Special Path”of Russian State-Civilization:The Genealogy of Vladimir Putin’s Geopolitical Metaphor
Igor Torbakov
Oct 1, 2023
Russian Regional Science in an Asymmetric System
Chimiza Lamazhaa
Sep 19, 2023
Orientation — North: Geidar Dzhemal’s Metaphysics of Politics
Maria Engström
Sep 1, 2023
“Preserving a Language Involves Everything that Makes a Language Popular…It’s not Something that Lies in Your Grandmother’s Old Trunk and Only Comes out at Festivals”
Dmitry Oparin and Vlada Baranova
Aug 14, 2023
Vodka and Pelmeni on the Ivory Coast
Kevin Limonier
Aug 4, 2023
Grassroots Struggles for Rethinking History, Debating Identity, and Restoring Dignity of People in Central Asia
Asel Doolotkeldieva
Aug 4, 2023
“Do Russians Want War?”: Exploring the Landscape of Anti-War Resistance in Russia
Irina Meyer-Olimpieva
Aug 1, 2023
Implications of Russia’s War Against Ukraine for Central Asia
Asel Doolotkeldieva
Jul 27, 2023
Spinning Prigozhin: How Russian Television Managed the Wagner Mutiny
Paul Goode
Jul 1, 2023
Voluntary exile: Kalmyk migrants’ views of Kalmykia from Moscow
Edward C. Holland and Elvira Churyumova
Jun 14, 2023
(Mis)Translating Deceit:A New Perspective on Disinformation
Stephen Hutchings, University of Manchester
Jun 1, 2023
Are there insider researchers in Russian academia?
Chimiza Lamazhaa
May 12, 2023
Russian policy towards integrating children of migrants:the gap between the state and the non-profit sector
Igor Mikheev
May 10, 2023
Sociology of the Russian future image: preliminary results (ru)
A.A. Tokarev, I.D. Kravchuk, M.Yu. Boyko, R.V. Ilyinsky
May 1, 2023
Deadly Illusions:The Ukraine War and Russian Historical Imagination
Igor Torbakov, Uppsala University, Sweden
May 1, 2023
Eurasia Remade?The Regional Ripples of Russia’s War in Ukraine
Alexander Cooley
Apr 1, 2023
Between Intentionality and Inevitability:Uncovering the Enablers of Russian War Crimes in Ukraine
Sarah Fainberg and Céline Marangé
Apr 1, 2023
