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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective	45
If you do not change your behavior: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule	28
Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 ( Qandy Qantar )	28
Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties	23
Producing state capacity through corruption: the case of immigration control in Russia	22
The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia	20
Redistributive policy and redistribution preferences: the effects of the Moscow redevelopment program	20
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms	20
The willingness of Ukrainians to fight for their own country on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion	16
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	15
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology	13
Political foundations of state support for civil society: analysis of the distribution of presidential grants in Russia	13
Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia	13
Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics	13
Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine)	13
The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia	12
Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party	11
Social sanctions and violent mobilization: lessons from the Crimean Tatar case	11
Belarusian public opinion and the 2020 uprising	11
Exogenous shock and Russian studies	10
Voices of the Caucasus: mapping knowledge production on the Caucasus region	10
Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space	10
Antisemitism in Russia: evaluating its decline and potential resurgence	10
US-Russian partnerships in science: working with differences	9

Our zona : the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan	9
Ethnic stacking in the Russian armed forces? Findings from a leaked dataset	9
“Did it have to come to this?” three images of Vladimir Putin’s attitudes toward Ukraine	9
Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest: the case of Belarus, 2000–2019	9
Rainfall variability and labor allocation in Uzbekistan: the role of women’s empowerment	9
Central Asian regionalism in the 1990s: order, familiarization, and spotlighting	8
The best among the connected (men): promotion in the Russian state apparatus	8
State pranking: deceit and humor in Russia-West relations	7
Corruption, development, and the state in Putin’s Russia	6
A tale of two councils: the changing roles of the security and state councils during the transformation period of modern Russian politics	6
Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order	6
Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states	6
Fear of punishment as a driver of survey misreporting and item non-response in Russia and its neighbors	6
Pro-war hardline influencers in Putin’s regime in the context of Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine	6
Building voting coalitions in electoral authoritarian regimes: a case study of the 2020 constitutional reform in Russia	6
Omnibalancing in China-Russia relations: regime survival and the specter of domestic threats as an impetus for bilateral alignment	6
Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity	6
Measuring and validating the Ukrainian ethnic coherence instrument	5
Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes	5
Dysfunctional orders: Russia’s rubbish protests and Putin’s limited access order	4
Transitional justice options for post-war Russia	4
Rise and fall: social science in Russia before and after the war	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
The spillover effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: labor response in a neighboring economy	4
State, business, and the political economy of modernization: introduction	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
Credibility revolution and the future of Russian studies	3
Polycentric crisis response and societal resilience: how local communities address internal displacement in Ukraine due to the Russian full-scale invasion	3
Life through grey-tinted glasses: how do audiences in Latvia psychologically respond to Sputnik Latvia’s destruction narratives of a failed Latvia?	3
The sources of territorial resilience in Putin’s Russia	3
A hidden form of mass event: the law, politics, and practice of single pickets in Russia	3
Russia’s return to Africa: a renewed challenge to the West?	2
Explaining Putin’s impunity: public sector corruption and political trust in Russia	2
From mercenary to legitimate actor? Russian discourses on private military companies	2
Ukrainian decentralization under martial law: challenges for regional and local self-governance	2
The future has to wait: 5G in Russia and the lack of elite consensus	2
Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies	2
Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments	2
Russia’s war strategy: what Chechnya suggests for Ukraine	2
The politics of bank failures in Russia	2
The invisible front: Ukraine’s IT army and the evolution of cyber resistance	2
Authoritarian media and foreign protests: evidence from a decade of Russian news	2
Multi-purpose populist policymaking in practice: the Polish academic evaluation reform	2
Perceptions of governance: state and non-state governance in the North Caucasus	2
Effects of a coup attempt on public attitudes under autocracy: quasi-experimental evidence from Russia	2
Ethnic intermarriage in Russia: the tale of four cities	2
Public opinion toward Russia’s war against Ukraine: investigating wartime attitudes in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan	2
Elite cohesion and resilience of the Russian regions: the case of Belgorod Oblast	2