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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 ( Qandy Qantar )	51
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective	35
If you do not change your behavior: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule	35
Want to be heard: survey participation in Russia before and during the war	24
The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia	23
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms	23
Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties	17
The effect of democratic participation on public goods provision: evidence from local governments in Ukraine	17
Redistributive policy and redistribution preferences: the effects of the Moscow redevelopment program	17
The willingness of Ukrainians to fight for their own country on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion	17
Invisible costs of exiting autocracy: subjective well-being and emotional burnout among Russian wartime migrants	16
Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus: what has changed and why it matters	15
Political foundations of state support for civil society: analysis of the distribution of presidential grants in Russia	14
Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics	13
Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia	13
The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia	12
Antisemitism in Russia: evaluating its decline and potential resurgence	12
Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space	11
Social sanctions and violent mobilization: lessons from the Crimean Tatar case	11
Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party	10
Voices of the Caucasus: mapping knowledge production on the Caucasus region	10
Our zona : the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan	9
Exogenous shock and Russian studies	9
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology	9
Belarusian public opinion and the 2020 uprising	9

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