Research

The Russia Watcher team is pleased to announce a new working paper, with generous support from Princeton’s LISD and the NSF. We study effects of anti-...

While aggregate-level trends remain largely stable since the outbreak of Russia’s war in Ukraine, we see a decline in strong support for the war, whic...

At the outbreak of the war, we saw many countries imposing sanctions on Russian firms and individuals with the express purpose of weakening the econom...

The four most popular sources of information about the war are: TV, internet publications, social media, and family/friends. Radio and newspaper are f...

How have Russian beliefs in the govt's propaganda narratives about Ukraine and the war changed over time? Our data suggest that belief that Ukrainian ...

On the 1-yr anniversary of the infamous Wagner mutiny, what does approval of Yevgeny Prigozhin look like in Russia? We've been tracking attitudes towa...

It's one year after Alexei Navalny's death. What do Russians think of him now? Our online survey data show little change between Mar-Oct '24, then dis...

Update on threat perceptions & SMO support in Russia post Kursk-incursion. We saw clear increase in personal threat perception among respondents in ou...

How often do Russians feel anxiety about the economy? We find fairly little variation over time. Economic anxiety seems to have decreased somewhat (th...

How many soldiers do Russians think have died in the war in Ukraine? We have asked this question regularly since September 2022. Casualty perceptions ...

Tomorrow, Grigore Pop-Elehces (the PI of Russia Watcher) will be presenting work from the project at the annual meeting of the American Political Scie...

After 1000 days of full-scale war in Ukraine, support for Russia's "special military operation" remains high; strong support may have even increased s...

Following the recent reports about the alleged death of the Wagner group head, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a plane crash in the Tver oblast, we initiated a ...

In light of the plane crash that reportedly led to the demise of Yevgeny Prigozhin, we have sought to comprehend the alterations in public sentiment w...

Since Vladimir Putin declared "partial mobilization" on September 21, we've been asking respondents whether they support the policy. A majority of our...

Since we began collecting data on May 19, support within the Russian population for the "special military operation" (SMO) in Ukraine has been high--a...

Daria Dugina, the daughter of ultranationalist Russian political thinker Aleksandr Dugin, was killed in a car bombing near Moscow on Saturday, August ...

The consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine are global in scope. In particular, analysts warn that Ukraine’s inability to ship grain and other foodstu...

On June 27, a Russian missile attack hit a shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, and news of the strike seemed to cause a decline...