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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Ukrainization and the Effect of Russian Language on the Web: The Google Trends Case Study	46
Rethinking “Transition” in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Through the Lens of Disability	42
Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories in Southeast Europe: (Non-)Believers, Social Network Bubbles, and the Discourse of Blame	29
Russia’s Minority Institutions, Ethnic Boundaries, and Social-Humanitarian Work: A Case of Collective Responsibility?	24
Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe: Insights from Experts	23
From Patriotic Education to Militarist Indoctrination—Disciplinary Power and Silent Resistance in Russia after the Onset of the War against Ukraine	22
The Reaction of Foreign Manufacturing Corporations Operating in Russia to the New Sanctions that Followed the Outbreak of the Russia–Ukraine Military Conflict	19
Adding Insult to Injury? Status Denial, Resentment, and the Foundations of Russian Foreign Policy	18
Institutional Performance and Party Cues: Their Influence on Individual Geopolitical Preferences. The Case of Moldova (2012-2019)	16
Russia’s Loans as a Means of Geoeconomic Competition in Africa and Latin America	15
An Uneven Revival: Gendered Ethno-Regional Intersections of Religiousness in Kyrgyzstan	15
Selective Censorship on Rightists and Leftists? An Observation and Analysis of Censored Social Media Posts in China	15
Colonial Redux: Explaining the Dominance of Russo-Centric Narratives About the North Caucasus	13
Politically Useful Tragedies: The Soviet Atrocities in the Historical Park(s) “Russia — My History”	13
Global Ranking of Expertise about Russia	13
Eurasia’s de Facto States after Russia’s Attack on Ukraine: Client Reactions to Patron Decline	12
A Collapsed Bridge: Most-Híd’s Social Embeddedness and Campaign Messages during the 2020 Parliamentary Election in Slovakia	12
The Night Wolves: Evidence of Russian Sharp Power and Propaganda from the Victory Roads’ Itinerary	11
COVID-19 in Central Asia: (De-)Securitization of a Health Crisis?	11
Trust and Political Attitudes of Public Service Media Audiences in a Polarized Society: The Case of Czech Television	10
Offsetting Audience Costs: Intra-Regime Bargaining during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine	9
Takeover by Stealth: The Curious Case of Russia’s Belarus Policy	9
The Narrow Definition of Genocide & Its Role in Investigating and Prosecuting Charges of Genocide in Romania	9
Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention	8
“The Last Push from the South?” Explaining the Spread of Russia’s Cossack Movement	8

Regime, Climate, and Region in Transition: Russian Participation in the Arctic Council	8
Securitization of Immigration in the Czech Republic and Its Impact on the Czech Migration Policy: Experts’ Perceptions	8
Change without Change: Remaking Mental Health Advocacy in Bulgaria	7
Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia	6
Silent Dissent: Exploring Russian Civic Activism as a Form of Opposition to the War in Ukraine	5
Legitimacy and Authoritarian Decline: The Internal Dynamics of Hybrid Regimes	5
Sustainable Development Agendas of Regional International Organizations: The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development and the Eurasian Development Bank	5
The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia	5
Divergent Frontiers: Contrasting Russia’s Strategic Culture Toward the Baltics and Ukraine and the Implications for NATO	5
Morphological Analysis of Narratives of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Western Academia and Think-Tank Community	5
Getting Central and Eastern Europe Right? How Greater Academic Pluralism Would Improve Collective Knowledge-Building in Democratization Studies	4
Managing Ethnic Diversity in Post-Soviet Context: The Cases of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan	4
Environmental Regionalism and International Organizations: Implications for Post-Communism	4
Exploring Religiosity among Kyrgyz Migrants in the United States	4
Reproductive Injustice and Genetic Counseling in the Socialist Politics of Disability	4
Chained by One Chain: Mechanisms of Electoral Mobilization at the Local Level in the Ethnic Republics of Russia	4
Why It Matters What Autocrats Say: Assessing Competing Theories of Propaganda	4
Party Cues and Pre-Campaign Attitudes: Voting Choice in Referendums in Eastern Europe	4
Strong Leaders in the Former Soviet Union: Successful or Simply Authoritarian?	4
Routing or Rerouting Europe? The Civilizational Mission of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe	3
Painful Moments and Realignment: Explaining Ukraine’s Foreign Policy, 2014–2022	3
Impact of Industrial Change on Skills during the Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Framing the Polish-Belarusian Border in 2021. The Case of Public Service Television (TVP)	3
The Symphony is Over? The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Orthodox Church–State Relations	3
From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht: The Trajectory of the (Neo)liberal Economic Expertise in Russia	3
Anti-Gender Politics as Discourse Coalitions: Russia’s Domestic and International Promotion of “Traditional Values”	3
Local Initiatives: A Historical Analysis of the Creation of Memorial Museums of the Gulag in (Post-)Soviet Russia	3
Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine	3
Governing the Economy Under Populist Rule: The Cases of Hungary and Poland	3
Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania	3
The 2015 “Religious Turn” in Poland’s Foreign Policy and Foreign Aid	3
Honest Broker or Status-Seeker: Russia’s Policy in Libya	3
Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe	3
Visualizations of Soviet Repression and the Gulag in Russian Museums: Common Exhibition Models	3
Why Climate? The Drivers of the European Union’s Climate Governance in its Post-Soviet East European Neighbors	3
“Eastern Opening” Policy as Political Marketing: Populism and Hungary’s Relations with China under the Orbán Government	3
Diminishing Justice and Third-Party Intervention: Explaining Russia’s Impartial Stance During the 2020 Karabakh War	3
Recognition of the EU’s Actorness in the Karabakh Peace Process by Azerbaijan	2
The Muftis and the Myths: Constructing the Russian “Church for Islam”	2
Conspiracy, Propaganda, or ‘Fake News’? How YouTube Audiences Responded to RT Coverage of COVID-19	2
Russia’s Domestication of Disability Inclusion	2
What Does the Mufti Say? Internal and Public Debates about Islam in Russia	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 Overhaul Under the Principle of “Patriots Governing Hong Kong”: Implications for Pro-China Governing Coalition Re-building	2
Securitization of Higher Education Expansion in Authoritarian States: Uzbekistan’s Seemingly “Elite” Tertiary System	1
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction	1
Undivided Ukraine: Evidence of Rallying Effects and an Emerging National Consensus	1
Before and After the Fall of Communism: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and Soviet Foreign Policy in 1939–1940 in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Textbooks	1
Interrelation between Institutional Trust, Satisfaction of Economy, and Corruption Perception	1

“Silencing” or “Magnifying” Memories? Stalin’s Repressions and the 1990s in Russian Museums	1
Electoral Gap and the Opportunity for Democratic Decline in Post-Communist Europe	1
Natural Allies? External Governance and Environmental Civil Society Organizations in the EU’s Eastern Partnership	1
Donbas Conflict: How Russia’s Trojan Horse Failed and Forced Moscow to Alter Its Strategy	1
Ideology Strikes Back: China’s Lessons of the Soviet Collapse, 1992–2022	1
Values Education, the Family, and Youth in Tajikistan: Building Docile Subjects	1
The Geopolitical Chess Game: Ukraine’s Interactions with the EU and Russia at the Onset of the War in Donbas	1
Protecting Their Own: Brokers and Informality in Real-Life Corrupt Transactions in the Case of Slovak Healthcare	1
Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic	1
The Spoken and “Unspoken” Political Agenda in the Virtual Space of Russian Muslims	1
Public Opinion toward Asylum Seekers in Post-Communist Europe: A Comparative Perspective	1
Dense Networks, Ethnic Minorities, and Electoral Mobilization in Contemporary Russia	1
Pandemic Decentralization: COVID-19 and Principal–Agent Relations in Russia	1
The Politics of Giving Voice: Media Framing of Extremist Groups in the 2010 Pride Parade in Serbia	1
Visibility Politics of Disability Representative Civil Society Organizations Pursuing Social Justice in Russia	1
When the Past Is Not Another Country: The Battlefields of History in Russia	1
The Formation of Religious Authority Among Central Asian Mullahs in Russia: Questions of Duty and Loyalty in a Muslim Migration Context	1
Chechen Nation-Building under Kadyrov: A Belated “ Korenizatsiya” ?	1
Russia’s Case for War against Ukraine: Legal Claims, Political Rhetoric, and Instrumentality in a Fracturing International Order	1
Evading Transparency, Doubting Democracy, Dreaming Big: Grassroots Perspectives on Science Governance in Russia	1
Stalin’s Terror, the Gulag, and Soviet Repression in Russia’s Museums: Editorial Introduction	1
Shaping Digital Sovereignty in Russia: Actors and Debates	1
Shifting Sands: Uncovering the Struggle for World War II Memory in Kazakhstan	1
Alla Pugacheva: Russian High-Profile Celebrity As a Mediator of Anti-War Sentiment	1
Russian “Gay Propaganda Law”: A Comprehensive Qualitative Analysis of the Legislation and Case Law	1
Russia’s Not-So-Secure Food Security	1
From Decentralization to Coordination: The Evolution of Russian Paradiplomacy (1991 – 2021)	1
The Role of Religion in Moldovan Populist Mobilization Strategies: A Competition between Traditional and Religious Values?	1
(Not-So-) Radicals: Debating Moderate Salafism in Russia	1
Depicting the Convicts: The Museumification of Varlam Shalamov’s and Joseph Jugashvili’s Residences in Vologda	1
Social Mobilization in Belarus - The Polish Perspective	1
Part of the Problem? The Eurasian Economic Union and Environmental Challenges in the Former Soviet Union	1