Publications and Media

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Helping Emigrants to Flee a Political Crisis: How Antiwar Alignment Shapes the Aid Preferences of Wartime Russian Migrants, with E. Kamalov, 2026. Perspectives on Politics

• What Works for Measuring Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Series of List Experiments and Self-Administered Surveys, with E. Kamalov, 2026. Sociological Methods & Research

• Invisible Costs of Exiting Autocracy: Subjective Well-being and Emotional Burnout Among Russian Wartime Migrants, with E. Kamalov, 2025. 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, 2025. Communist and Post-Communist Studies

Book Chapters

• Russia: Repressive Innovations in Wartime, with K. Stoner. Transnational Repression: A Comparative Perspective Across Autocracies and Democracies, eds. Klaus Brummer and Sumit Ganguly. New York: Cambridge University Press

• 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: Helsinki University Press, 2024. With M. Zavadskaya and E. Kamalov

Articles Under Review

• Unintended Consequences of Transnational Repression: How Opposition Gains Support in Response to Criminalization by Autocrats, with E. Kamalov (R&R at International Organization)

• Gendered Response to War: Explaining the Gender Gap in Political Activism of Wartime Russian Emigrants, 2022-2023. With K. Nugumanova and E. Kamalov

• Can Media Framing Increase Support for Health Reform? Results of the Conjoint Experiment, with B. Sokolov, M. Zavadskaya and E. Kamalov

Working Papers

• Authoritarian Passport: How States Weaponize Bureaucratic Dependencies for Emigrants. With E. Kamalov

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

• 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

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

Survey Reports

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

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

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

• 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 Briefs and Blogs

• Russians Are Finally Angry About Censorship. Persuasion, 2026

• 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 and E. Kamalov

• In their Own Voice: Supporting Russia’s Wartime Migrants. PONARS Eurasia. With R. Smyth, E. Kamalov, M. Zavadskaya, V. Kostenko, M. Turchenko, A. Semenov

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

• 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

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

• 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