Publications and Media

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Invisible Costs of Exiting Autocracy: Subjective Well-being and Emotional Burnout Among Russian Wartime Migrants, with E.Kamalov Post-Soviet Affairs

• Gender Egalitarianism of Recent Emigrants from Russia: The Effect of Emigration or a Trait of a Social Group?, with V.Kostenko and E.Kamalov Communist and Post-Communist Studies

• Book Chapter Voice after Exit? Exploring Civic Activism among Russian Migrant Communities in Eurasia after February 24, 2022. Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe, Helsinki University Press. With M.Zavadskaya, E. Kamalov.

Articles Under Review

• Helping to Flee a Political Crisis: A Conjoint Experiment on the Aid Preferences of Wartime Russian Migrants”, with E.Kamalov (minor R&R in Perspectives on Politics)

• Measuring Intimate Partner Violence in Middle-Income Country: Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments, with E. Kamalov (R&R in Sociological Methods & Research)

• Unintended Consequences of Transnational Repressions: How Opposition Gains Support in Response to Criminalization by Autocrats, with E. Kamalov

• Russia: Repressive Innovations in Wartime, with K. Stoner (in edited volume, Cambridge University Press)

Working Papers

• Pushing Away the Brain Gain: Effect of Discrimination on Integration of Politically Induced Migrants. Best Doctoral Papers Award in Nationalism/Migration, 25th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities

• Reversing Brain Drain from Autocracies: How Autocratic Incentives, Regime Change, and Hostland Conditions Shape the Return of Political Emigrants. With E.Kamalov

• How to Maintain a Panel Survey of Political Migrants: Evidence from Field Experiments. With E.Kamalov

• The effect of discrimination on the political behavior of recent migrants: evidence from three waves of the panel survey of new Russian migrants. With E. Kamalov

• Can media framing increase support for health reform? Results of the Conjoint Experiment. With B. Sokolov, M. Zavadskaya and E. Kamalov.

Survey Reports

• A Year and a Half in Exile: Progress and Obstacles in the Integration of Russian Migrants. SocArXiv, 2024. With E. Kamalov

• Six Months in Exile: A New Life of Russian Emigrants. SocArXiv, 2023. With E. Kamalov, V. Kostenko, M. Zavadskaya.

• Partner violence in Russia: Results of a Series of Surveys. Violencemonitor.org, 2023. With E. Kamalov (in Russian).

• The Great Exodus: A Portrait of New Migrants from Russia. Report on the results of the March 2022 survey. OutRush project, 2022. With E. Kamalov, V. Kostenko, M. Zavadskaya.

Policy and Media Papers

• Should I Stay or Should I Go? Russian Emigration in Flux. Carnegie Politika, 2024. With E. Kamalov

• Far from Home: Russians Relocating to Latin America. Ponars Eurasia, 2024. With S. Ruseishvili, E. Kamalov

• New Russian Migrants Against the War: Political Action in Russia and Abroad. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2023. With E. Kamalov, M. Zavadskaya, V.Kostenko.

• Studying Public Opinion Among Migrants: Challenges and Opportunities. Russian Analytical Digest, 2023, No. 292. With E. Kamalov, M. Zavadskaya, V.Kostenko.

• Abuse, slapping, control: more than 20 million Russians have experienced partner violence. Forbes Russia, 2023. With E. Kamalov

• The Russian Rhizome: a Social Portrait of New Immigrants. Re-Russia, 2023. With E. Kamalov, V. Kostenko, M. Zavadskaya

• New activists or new ‘common folk?’ The evolution of political activism among Russian anti-war emigrants. Russia.Post, 2023. With M. Zavadskaya, E. Kamalov, V. Kostenko.

• Russia’s 2022 Anti-War Exodus: The Attitudes and Expectations of Russian Migrants. Ponars Eurasia, 2022. With V. Kostenko, M. Zavadskaya, E. Kamalov

Selected Media

• For Many Russian Exiles, Even a Peace Deal Might Not Mean a Ticket Home. The New York Times, 2025

• Russians who left abroad increasingly return home, boosting economy. Bloomberg, 2024

• I no longer have a country’: Antiwar Russians who fled unlikely to return. Al Jazeera, 2024

• Du willst weg vom Krieg, aber er holt dich überall ein. Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2023

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

• Почему релоканты едут домой? Живой Гвоздь, 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, 2023

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