OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Post-Soviet Affairs is 6. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A blind and militant attachment: Russian patriotism in comparative perspective	44
Authoritarian succession, rules, and conflicts: Tokayev’s gambit and Kazakhstan’s bloody January of 2022 ( Qandy Qantar )	28
If you do not change your behavior: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule	27
Producing state capacity through corruption: the case of immigration control in Russia	22
Going jingo: a classification of the wartime positions of Russia’s “systemic opposition” parties	22
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms	20
The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia	19
Redistributive policy and redistribution preferences: the effects of the Moscow redevelopment program	18
The willingness of Ukrainians to fight for their own country on the eve of the 2022 Russian invasion	16
Invisible costs of exiting autocracy: subjective well-being and emotional burnout among Russian wartime migrants	15
Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus: what has changed and why it matters	14
Presidential popularity and international crises: an assessment of the rally-‘round-the-flag effect in Russia	13
Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine)	13
Political foundations of state support for civil society: analysis of the distribution of presidential grants in Russia	13
The big brothers: measuring influence of large firms on electoral mobilization in Russia	11
Dominant party and co-ethnic vote in Russia’s ethnic republics	11
Dissecting Putin’s regime ideology	11
Voices of the Caucasus: mapping knowledge production on the Caucasus region	10
Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party	10
Antisemitism in Russia: evaluating its decline and potential resurgence	10
Ethnic stacking in the Russian armed forces? Findings from a leaked dataset	9
Perceptions of the past in the post-Soviet space	9
Social sanctions and violent mobilization: lessons from the Crimean Tatar case	9
Rainfall variability and labor allocation in Uzbekistan: the role of women’s empowerment	9
Exogenous shock and Russian studies	9

Our zona : the impact of decarceration and prison closure on local communities in Kazakhstan	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
US-Russian partnerships in science: working with differences	8
Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest: the case of Belarus, 2000–2019	7
Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order	6
Building voting coalitions in electoral authoritarian regimes: a case study of the 2020 constitutional reform in 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
Fear of punishment as a driver of survey misreporting and item non-response in Russia and its neighbors	6
Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states	6
The best among the connected (men): promotion in the Russian state apparatus	6
State pranking: deceit and humor in Russia-West relations	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