OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Problems of Post-Communism is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Europe of Euromaidan: From an Economic Union to an Existential Identity	61
Ukrainization and the Effect of Russian Language on the Web: The Google Trends Case Study	58
Minding the Resource Gap: Distributive Efficacy and Kin State Provision of Public Goods in a Multiethnic Georgian Region	27
“We Don’t Do It for the Regime, We Do It for Ourselves”: relational Politics and the 2022 Russian Antiwar Petitions	21
Russia’s Minority Institutions, Ethnic Boundaries, and Social-Humanitarian Work: A Case of Collective Responsibility?	20
Rethinking “Transition” in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Through the Lens of Disability	18
Is the Asia–Pacific the “Promised Land” for Russia’s Pipeline Natural Gas Exports after the Ukraine War?	17
Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories in Southeast Europe: (Non-)Believers, Social Network Bubbles, and the Discourse of Blame	16
From Patriotic Education to Militarist Indoctrination—Disciplinary Power and Silent Resistance in Russia after the Onset of the War against Ukraine	16
The Reaction of Foreign Manufacturing Corporations Operating in Russia to the New Sanctions that Followed the Outbreak of the Russia–Ukraine Military Conflict	15
Adding Insult to Injury? Status Denial, Resentment, and the Foundations of Russian Foreign Policy	13
Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe: Insights from Experts	13
Decolonial (Un)coupling from Russia?: The Relationship between the European Union and the Belarusian Democratic Opposition	12
Russia’s Loans as a Means of Geoeconomic Competition in Africa and Latin America	12
Global Ranking of Expertise about Russia	9
The Night Wolves: Evidence of Russian Sharp Power and Propaganda from the Victory Roads’ Itinerary	8
A Collapsed Bridge: Most-Híd’s Social Embeddedness and Campaign Messages during the 2020 Parliamentary Election in Slovakia	8
Eurasia’s de Facto States after Russia’s Attack on Ukraine: Client Reactions to Patron Decline	8
The Narrow Definition of Genocide & Its Role in Investigating and Prosecuting Charges of Genocide in Romania	8
Colonial Redux: Explaining the Dominance of Russo-Centric Narratives About the North Caucasus	8
Takeover by Stealth: The Curious Case of Russia’s Belarus Policy	7
The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia	7
Trust and Political Attitudes of Public Service Media Audiences in a Polarized Society: The Case of Czech Television	7
Offsetting Audience Costs: Intra-Regime Bargaining during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine	6
Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention	6

“The Last Push from the South?” Explaining the Spread of Russia’s Cossack Movement	5
Securitization of Immigration in the Czech Republic and Its Impact on the Czech Migration Policy: Experts’ Perceptions	5
Meaning-Making in Times of Trouble: COVID-19 Conspiracies on Russian Telegram	5
Introduction: Power and Social Hierarchies in the North Caucasus: Perceptions and Challenges	4
Strong Leaders in the Former Soviet Union: Successful or Simply Authoritarian?	4
Getting Central and Eastern Europe Right? How Greater Academic Pluralism Would Improve Collective Knowledge-Building in Democratization Studies	4
Local Initiatives: A Historical Analysis of the Creation of Memorial Museums of the Gulag in (Post-)Soviet Russia	4
Divergent Frontiers: Contrasting Russia’s Strategic Culture Toward the Baltics and Ukraine and the Implications for NATO	4
Chained by One Chain: Mechanisms of Electoral Mobilization at the Local Level in the Ethnic Republics of Russia	4
Managing Ethnic Diversity in Post-Soviet Context: The Cases of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan	4
Reproductive Injustice and Genetic Counseling in the Socialist Politics of Disability	4
Change without Change: Remaking Mental Health Advocacy in Bulgaria	4
Silent Dissent: Exploring Russian Civic Activism as a Form of Opposition to the War in Ukraine	4
Exploring Religiosity among Kyrgyz Migrants in the United States	4
Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe	4
Impact of Industrial Change on Skills during the Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine	3
“Eastern Opening” Policy as Political Marketing: Populism and Hungary’s Relations with China under the Orbán Government	3
Recognition of the EU’s Actorness in the Karabakh Peace Process by Azerbaijan	3
The 2015 “Religious Turn” in Poland’s Foreign Policy and Foreign Aid	3
Framing the Polish-Belarusian Border in 2021. The Case of Public Service Television (TVP)	3
Constructing the Self: Decolonial Legislation and the Pursuit of Ontological Security in Wartime Ukraine	3
Governing the Economy Under Populist Rule: The Cases of Hungary and Poland	3
Painful Moments and Realignment: Explaining Ukraine’s Foreign Policy, 2014–2022	3
Precarious Organizational Professionalization and Civic Engagement in the South Caucasus	3
Diminishing Justice and Third-Party Intervention: Explaining Russia’s Impartial Stance During the 2020 Karabakh War	3
From Emergence to Establishment: The Institutionalization of Sociology in Kyrgyzstan	2
Alla Pugacheva: Russian High-Profile Celebrity As a Mediator of Anti-War Sentiment	2
Conspiracy, Propaganda, or ‘Fake News’? How YouTube Audiences Responded to RT Coverage of COVID-19	2
The Muftis and the Myths: Constructing the Russian “Church for Islam”	2
From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht: The Trajectory of the (Neo)liberal Economic Expertise in Russia	2
Contingent Authoritarian Regionalism: From Autocratic Regime Challenges to CSTO Collective Signaling?	2
Interrelation between Institutional Trust, Satisfaction of Economy, and Corruption Perception	2
The Skeletons in Family Political Closets: Narratives of Communism in Czech and German Families	2
Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic	2
Undivided Ukraine: Evidence of Rallying Effects and an Emerging National Consensus	2
Russia’s Domestication of Disability Inclusion	2
Lost and Found: Discovery and Implications of First Elections In Post-Communist Lithuania	2
Tacit Skills of Return Migrants to Poland and Lithuania from the UK: Twenty Years After the May 2004 EU Enlargement	2
I’m Angry! Disability Protests in Post-Communist Poland	2
Electoral Gap and the Opportunity for Democratic Decline in Post-Communist Europe	2
Does Social Pension Help Boost Political Trust in Rural China? Exploring the Association between the New Rural Pension Scheme Enrollment and Residents’ Trust in Local Government	2
Ideology Strikes Back: China’s Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, 1992–2022	2
Shaping Digital Sovereignty in Russia: Actors and Debates	2
Russia’s Not-So-Secure Food Security	2
Revolution or Evolution? Continuity and Change in Cleavages and Issues in Czech Politics	2
Electoral Overhaul Under the Principle of “Patriots Governing Hong Kong”: Implications for Pro-China Governing Coalition Re-building	2
What Does the Mufti Say? Internal and Public Debates about Islam in Russia	2
Population Dynamic and Brokers’ Credibility: Explaining the Limited Use of Electoral Clientelism in Poor Roma Communities	2
Stalin’s Terror, the Gulag, and Soviet Repression in Russia’s Museums: Editorial Introduction	2

The Spoken and “Unspoken” Political Agenda in the Virtual Space of Russian Muslims	2
The Role of Religion in Moldovan Populist Mobilization Strategies: A Competition between Traditional and Religious Values?	1
Promoting or Shattering Populism: The Case of Political Comedy and Satire in Ukrainian Media	1
Russia’s War on Ukraine, the EU, and Its Eastern Neighborhood: Layers of Liminality	1
Back to the USSR? Quantifying Behavioral Strategies of Environmental NGOs in Post-2022 Russia	1
Paradoxes of Green Transition and Developmentalism: The Case of EV Battery Production in Hungary	1
Chechen Nation-Building under Kadyrov: A Belated “ Korenizatsiya” ?	1
The Geopolitical Chess Game: Ukraine’s Interactions with the EU and Russia at the Onset of the War in Donbas	1
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction	1
Social Mobilization in Belarus - The Polish Perspective	1
“We Have Always Had a State”: Recognition Denial and Kazakhstan’s Ontological Security-Seeking	1
Countering National-Level Populism with Local Politics? Broadening Participatory Processes in Budapest in Illiberal Hungary	1
Depoliticization and Necropolitics: A Critical Examination of Lukashenka’s Regime	1
How Do Local Party Systems Change after the Direct Election of Mayors? Analysis of the Institutional Reform in Lithuania	1
Pandemic Decentralization: COVID-19 and Principal–Agent Relations in Russia	1
Russian “Gay Propaganda Law”: A Comprehensive Qualitative Analysis of the Legislation and Case Law	1
Protecting Their Own: Brokers and Informality in Real-Life Corrupt Transactions in the Case of Slovak Healthcare	1
Shifting Sands: Uncovering the Struggle for World War II Memory in Kazakhstan	1
Spatio-Temporal Reshaping of Collective Memory in Chechnya	1
(Not-So-) Radicals: Debating Moderate Salafism in Russia	1
Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Context, Causes, and Consequences	1
Regulating Competition in the Digital Platform Economy: Russia and China Compared	1
Rooftop Exploration and the Creation of Alternative Spaces in St. Petersburg	1
Visibility Politics of Disability Representative Civil Society Organizations Pursuing Social Justice in Russia	1
Russia’s Case for War against Ukraine: Legal Claims, Political Rhetoric, and Instrumentality in a Fracturing International Order	1
Values Education, the Family, and Youth in Tajikistan: Building Docile Subjects	1
Highlanders and Highland Communities of the North Caucasus in the Сenter-Periphery System	1
The Formation of Religious Authority Among Central Asian Mullahs in Russia: Questions of Duty and Loyalty in a Muslim Migration Context	1