Publications and Media

Publications and Media

Peer-Reviewed Publications

“What Works for Measuring Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Series of List Experiments and Self-Administered Surveys”, with Ivetta Sergeeva, Sociological Methods & Research (2026)

“Helping Emigrants Flee a Political Crisis: How Antiwar Alignment Shapes the Aid Preferences of Wartime Russian Migrants”, with Ivetta Sergeeva, Perspectives on Politics (2026)

“Invisible Costs of Exiting Autocracy: Subjective Well-being and Emotional Burnout Among Russian Wartime Migrants”, with Ivetta Sergeeva, Post-Soviet Affairs (2025)

“Gender Egalitarianism of Recent Emigrants from Russia: The Effect of Emigration or a Trait of a Social Group?”, with Veronica Kostenko and Ivetta Sergeeva, Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2025)

“Voice after Exit? Exploring Patterns of Civic Activism among Russian Migrant Communities in Eurasia after 24 February 2022”, with Ivetta Sergeeva and Margarita Zavadskaya. In Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe, Helsinki University Press (2024)

In Russian:

“Factors of Mass Support for the Government in the Times of Structural Reforms”. Political Science (RU), with Boris Sokolov, Margarita Zavadskaya (2021)

“National Pride and Subjective Well-being of Russians”. Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes, with Eduard Ponarin (2020)

“Subjective Well-being of Migrants in Russia: Effects of Regional Characteristics and Migration Legislation”, Journal of Economic Sociology, with Eduard Ponarin (2020)

Revise and Resubmit

“Unintended Consequences of Transnational Repression: How Opposition Gains Support Abroad in Response to Criminalization by Autocrats”, with Ivetta Sergeeva (R&R at International Organization)

Working Papers

“Gendered Response to War: Explaining Gender Gap in Political Activism of Wartime Russian Emigrants, 2022-2023”, with Karolina Nugumanova and Ivetta Sergeeva

“Between International and Domestic Politics: Host Country Effects on Russian Post-2022 Emigrant Engagement”

“How to Maintain a Panel Survey of Political Migrants: Evidence from a Field Experiment”, with Ivetta Sergeeva

“Reversing Brain Drain from Autocracies: How Autocratic Incentives, Regime Change, and Hostland Conditions Shape the Return of Political Emigrants”, with Ivetta Sergeeva (available upon request)

Work in Progress

“Identity Exile: How Transnational Repression Forces Homeland Identity Decoupling”

“Tumbleweed Migration: When Democratic Backsliding Forces Emigrants to Move Again”, with Ivetta Sergeeva

“Liberty Maximization: Explaining Country Choice Among Political Emigrants from Authoritarian States”, with Karolina Nugumanova and Ivetta Sergeeva

“How Dependence on Autocratic Homeland Passport Renewal Silences Oppositional Emigrants”, with Ivetta Sergeeva

“Can Media Framing Increase Support for Health Reform? Results of the Conjoint Experiment”, with Boris Sokolov, Margarita Zavadskaya and Ivetta Sergeeva

“The Effect of Discrimination on the Political Behavior of Recent Migrants: Evidence from Two Waves of the Panel Survey of New Russian Migrants”, with Ivetta Sergeeva

Policy Briefs and Media Columns

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Russian Emigration in Flux, Carnegie Politika, 2024, with Ivetta Sergeeva

Policy brief, Far from Home: Russians Relocating to Latin America, Ponars Eurasia, 2024, with Svetlana Ruseishvili and Ivetta Sergeeva

Research report, A Year and a Half in Exile: Progress and Obstacles in the Integration of Russian Migrants, SocArXiv, 2024, with Ivetta Sergeeva

Policy brief, In their Own Voice: Supporting Russia’s Wartime Migrants, Ponars Eurasia, with Regina Smyth, Ivetta Sergeeva, Margarita Zavadskaya, Veronica Kostenko, Michail Turchenko, Andrey Semenov

Research report, Six Months in Exile: A New Life of Russian Emigrants. SocArXiv, 2023, with Ivetta Sergeeva, Veronica Kostenko, Margarita Zavadskaya

Policy brief, New Russian Migrants Against the War: Political Action in Russia and Abroad. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2023, with Ivetta Sergeeva, Margarita Zavadskaya, Veronica Kostenko

Research report, Studying Public Opinion Among Migrants: Challenges and Opportunities. Russian Analytical Digest, 2023, No. 292, with Ivetta Sergeeva, Margarita Zavadskaya, Veronica Kostenko

The Russian Rhizome: a Social Portrait of New Immigrants. Re-Russia, 2023, with Ivetta Sergeeva, Veronica Kostenko, Margarita Zavadskaya

New Activists or New ‘Common Folk?’ The Evolution of Political Activism Among Russian Anti-war Emigrants. Russia.Post, 2023, with Ivetta Sergeeva, Margarita Zavadskaya, Veronica Kostenko

Abuse, Slapping, Control: More than 20 Million Russians have Experienced Partner violence. Forbes Russia, 2023, with Ivetta Sergeeva (in Russian)

Research report, Partner Violence in Russia: Results of a Series of Surveys, Violencemonitor.org, 2023, with Ivetta Sergeeva (in Russian)

Research report, The Great Exodus: A Portrait of New Migrants from Russia. Report on the results of the March 2022 survey. OutRush, 2022, with Ivetta Sergeeva, Veronica Kostenko, Margarita Zavadskaya

Policy brief, Russia’s 2022 Anti-War Exodus: The Attitudes and Expectations of Russian Migrants. Ponars Eurasia, 2022, with Ivetta Sergeeva, Veronica Kostenko, Margarita Zavadskaya

Interviews

The Russians returning home from self-imposed exile. Financial Times, 2023.

Why are relocating individuals returning home? Zhivoy Gvozd (Video, in Russian), 2023.

Новая русская эмиграция: кто, куда и зачем уезжает из России сегодня. Юра, мы всё узнали (Podcast), 2023.

Эмигранты 2022-го не планируют возвращаться в Россию. Как изменилась их жизнь за полгода? Результаты большого исследования. Бумага, 2023.

Det største brain drain i 30 år: Ressourcestærke russere som Antonina har startet et nyt liv i udlandet. Information (Denmark), 2023.

Более 20 миллионов россиян сталкивались с партнерским насилием. Москва FM, 2023.

Young scholars in our professional team: interview for university page. Higher School of Economics, 2020.