OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Post-Soviet Affairs is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 ( Qandy Qantar )	58
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective	41
If you do not change your behavior: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule	40
Want to be heard: survey participation in Russia before and during the war	28
The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia	26
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms	24
Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties	20
Redistributive policy and redistribution preferences: the effects of the Moscow redevelopment program	19
The effect of democratic participation on public goods provision: evidence from local governments in Ukraine	18
The willingness of Ukrainians to fight for their own country on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion	17
Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus: what has changed and why it matters	16
Invisible costs of exiting autocracy: subjective well-being and emotional burnout among Russian wartime migrants	14
Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia	14
The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia	13
Migration assistance activism and the German humanitarian visa: framing deservingness, enacting solidarity	13
Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics	13
Voices of the Caucasus: mapping knowledge production on the Caucasus region	12
Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space	12
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology	12
Exogenous shock and Russian studies	12
Antisemitism in Russia: evaluating its decline and potential resurgence	11
Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party	10
Belarusian public opinion and the 2020 uprising	10
Ethnic stacking in the Russian armed forces? Findings from a leaked dataset	9
Our zona : the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan	9

Rainfall variability and labor allocation in Uzbekistan: the role of women’s empowerment	9
Social sanctions and violent mobilization: lessons from the Crimean Tatar case	9
Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest: the case of Belarus, 2000–2019	8
“Did it have to come to this?” three images of Vladimir Putin’s attitudes toward Ukraine	8
Central bank communication during the war: the case of the National Bank of Ukraine	8
US-Russian partnerships in science: working with differences	7
State pranking: deceit and humor in Russia-West relations	7
The best among the connected (men): promotion in the Russian state apparatus	7
Central Asian regionalism in the 1990s: order, familiarization, and spotlighting	7
Pro-war hardline influencers in Putin’s regime in the context of Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine	6
Omnibalancing in China-Russia relations: regime survival and the specter of domestic threats as an impetus for bilateral alignment	6
Corruption, development, and the state in Putin’s Russia	6
Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states	6
Building voting coalitions in electoral authoritarian regimes: a case study of the 2020 constitutional reform in Russia	6
Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes	5
Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity	5
Fear of punishment as a driver of survey misreporting and item non-response in Russia and its neighbors	5
On double miss in Russian studies: can social and political psychology help?	4
Polycentric crisis response and societal resilience: how local communities address internal displacement in Ukraine due to the Russian full-scale invasion	4
Understandings of democracy and “good citizenship” in Ukraine: utopia for the people, participation in politics not required	4
Measuring and validating the Ukrainian ethnic coherence instrument	4
Transitional justice options for post-war Russia	4
Rise and fall: social science in Russia before and after the war	4
The spillover effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: labor response in a neighboring economy	4
“You should care by prohibiting all this obscenity”: a public policy analysis of the Russian law banning medical and legal transition for transgender people	3
Russia’s war strategy: what Chechnya suggests for Ukraine	3
The sources of territorial resilience in Putin’s Russia	3
Life through grey-tinted glasses: how do audiences in Latvia psychologically respond to Sputnik Latvia’s destruction narratives of a failed Latvia?	3
Multi-purpose populist policymaking in practice: the Polish academic evaluation reform	3
Effects of a coup attempt on public attitudes under autocracy: quasi-experimental evidence from Russia	3
Protest, platforms, and the state in the Belarus crisis	3
Explaining Putin’s impunity: public sector corruption and political trust in Russia	3
Russia’s return to Africa: a renewed challenge to the West?	3
From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies	3
Credibility revolution and the future of Russian studies	3
The local and regional dimension of Ukraine’s resilience during Russia’s full-scale invasion: an introduction	3
A hidden form of mass event: the law, politics, and practice of single pickets in Russia	3
Commitment problems and the failure of the Minsk process: the second-order commitment challenge	2
The invisible front: Ukraine’s IT army and the evolution of cyber resistance	2
Elite cohesion and resilience of the Russian regions: the case of Belgorod Oblast	2
Building fences? sectoral immigration bans in Russian regions	2
Navigating political (dis)engagement: Russian wartime migrants in Georgia	2
Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies	2
Ukrainian decentralization under martial law: challenges for regional and local self-governance	2
Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments	2
Research on language in wartime: a critical ethnographic sociolinguistic approach	2
Neoliberal authoritarianism and the partial decriminalization of sex work in Kazakhstan	2
The politics of bank failures in Russia	2
Public opinion toward Russia’s war against Ukraine: investigating wartime attitudes in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan	2
Authoritarian media and foreign protests: evidence from a decade of Russian news	2

Authoritarian welfare and resilience: politics of child benefits in Russia