The complete #CentralAsiaBarometer dataset (waves 1–14, 2017–2023) is now available in #OpenAccess on Discuss Data. We're proud to have archived and secured this data — especially since CAB has ceased operations and future access was potentially at risk. discuss-data.net/dataset/1d10...

Our second blogpost is already online: Valentyn Hatsko & Dmytro Andreiev (both Kyiv School of Economics) analysed 15.000 news items in order to understand, how and what Ukrainian media report (and what they omit) about public opinion polls. discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/se...

Many thanks for the opportunity to write the opening contribution to this exciting new blog! Although digital forensic process tracing is not at the centre of my current @leverhulme.ac.uk project, it is very much something I consider important and would like to come back to soon. So have a read!

Discuss Data@discussdata.bsky.social · 4w ago

Discuss Data launches a blog, where experts from the research community share their insights on research data, data collection & analysis, methods and best practices. The first contribution by @hauterjakob.bsky.social is on "Digital Forensic Process Tracing": discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/se...

Discuss Data launches a blog, where experts from the research community share their insights on research data, data collection & analysis, methods and best practices. The first contribution by @hauterjakob.bsky.social is on "Digital Forensic Process Tracing": discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/se...

Publication alert: The recently published article "Perceived fairness in access to higher education in wartime Ukraine: Social inequalities and trust in admission testing" is based on three waves of survey data, that are available on Discuss Data: discuss-data.net/dataset/4b5b...

#Oligarchs are among the most controversial figures in the post-Soviet region: On the one hand they are major employers, but on the other they have a poor reputation. A new open access dataset from #Ukraine reveals what people there think of oligarchs: discuss-data.net/dataset/5e9d...

Reading recommendation: @theins.press published a new piece, in which the author claims, that #Rosstat changed the methodology for calculating the Gini coefficient in order to manipulate inequality 📊 statistics in #Russia. The goal? Hiding record high inequality 👇 theins.press/en/economics...

Gini and his master: How Russia manipulates statistics to conceal record-high inequality

The main measure of income inequality – the Gini coefficient – reached its highest level in Russia since 2007. From the perspective of the authorities in the…

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A new #OpenAccess dataset contains all non-combatant airspace violations in Europe during the Russo-Ukrainian war for the period from 24 February 2022 to 17 May 2026 for which information could be found. The majority of violations occured in #Romania and #Moldova. doi.org/10.48320/605...

Official Russian economic data should be handled with care: German & Swedish authorities report, that #Russia is manipulating economic #statistics, making them unreliable. The Russian 2025 budget deficit is approximately $30 bn/41.8% (!) higher than officially stated www.reuters.com/business/ger...

German intelligence accuses Russia of hiding true economic cost of war

Germany's intelligence service on Wednesday accused Moscow of hiding the true cost of the war in Ukraine, saying Russia's budget deficit in 2025 was more than 2.36 trillion roubles ($30.45 billion) hi...

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🥸 Who will publish data set no. 300 on Discuss Data? As of now, we have exactly 299 datasets!

Lots of Russian regions are raising their sign-on bonus right now, indicating recruitment problems. Just in the last weeks: Volgograd 2.6m YaNAO 3.6m Astrakhan 2.6m Rostov 3m Khabarovsk 2.1m Magadan 3.6m Sakha/Yakutia 2.1m KhMAO 3.55m Kab-Balk 2.4m Karach-Cherk 2.4m Novosibirsk 2.9m Sevastopol 1.5m

Janis Kluge@jakluge.de · 4mo ago

Recruitment in Russia is slowing down. In Q1 of 2026, numbers were down by 20% compared to last year. This change is evident in both official statements and budget data. On average, it was 800 new contract soldiers per day this year.

The four big challenges in studying Russia since 2022 Well, it's not really four, but 'access', 'self-censorship', '(un)representative data', and 'ethics' are a decent approximation. A post about some talks at BASEES 2026. postsocialism.org/2026/04/13/t...

The four big challenges in studying Russia since 2022

A Birmingham sculpture. Credit: Oosoom – Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, I just returned from the annual conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies where I …

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After the full-scale Russian invasion, millions of Ukrainians have left the country. What do we know about them, their integration into the host countries, their intentions for the future? The 5th wave of the CES Ukrainian War Refugees Abroad survey provides insights discuss-data.net/dataset/d897...

Studying Russian public opinion during the war is difficult. Still, some projects produce meaningful data. One example is the Panel Study of Russian Public Opinion and Attitudes (PROPA). All 5 PROPA waves from 2024-2025 are now available in open access, e.g. wave 5: discuss-data.net/dataset/5947...

Reading recommendation: this article provides some data on the (upcoming) Russian demographic crisis:

Leibniz-Institut für Ost- & Südosteuropaforschung@leibniz-ios.de · 5mo ago

War, deteriorating age structure, economic contraction, shrinking migration flows: Russia is heading for a significant and almost irreversible decline in population—driven by Putin's policies. Comment by Salavat Abylkalikov, on our blog. ➡️ ukraine2022.ios-regensburg.de/demography-c...

A report about our first DiscussDataLab, that we held in August 2025 on the topic "Challenges of Data Collection, Re-use, and Analysis: Public Opinion, Political Debates, and Protests in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War" in Bremen, has been published: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...

Since we have a critical mass of datasets (+20) that deal with #repression, we have opened a new category for this topic. The curator, Jan Matti Dollbaum, is currently conducting his own research on repression. You can browse through our repression data here: discuss-data.net/categories/r...

Hardly any other topic in #Ukraine is as hotly debated as #corruption. A new dataset by the renowned Kyiv International Institute of Sociology #KIIS shows, how the perception of #anticorruption changed in recent years: discuss-data.net/dataset/7909...

OTD 12 years ago, the #Maidan #protest (and also the "anti-Maidan") raged in #Ukraine and changed the country permanently & thoroughly. What do Ukrainians think today about the protests? A new #OpenAccess dataset on Discuss Data provides interesting insights: discuss-data.net/dataset/fd48...

The "Caucasus Barometer" is a longitudinal survey about socio-economic issues & political attitudes in the countries of the #SouthCaucasus: #Armenia, #Azerbaijan and #Georgia. This unique set of data (years 2008-2024) is now available in #OpenAccess on Discuss Data: discuss-data.net/dataset/3f7d...

The dataset on Russian repression against Crimean Tatars in occupied Ukraine is also available in open access on Discuss Data: doi.org/10.48320/18E...

Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS)@zois.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Russian repression against Crimean #Tatars in occupied Ukraine follows a pattern. Using a new geo-coded event dataset, researchers Elmira Muratova & @felixschulte.bsky.social map human rights violations & explain why repression is often carried out on Thursdays. More on the #KonKoop DataLab blog ⤵️

What do the people in #Georgia - a country itself attacked by #Russia in 2008 - think about the Russian full scale war against #Ukraine? A newly published dataset by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers provides insight into public opinion on this topic in Georgia: discuss-data.net/dataset/df02...

The updated #OpenAccess dataset by Heiko Pleines on #Oligarchs in #Ukraine between 2000-2025 gives a profound overview of the development of Ukraine's richest persons. In this version, information on leaked offshore links and sanctions have been added: discuss-data.net/dataset/0836...

A new dataset on #Georgia is online, providing rich data on key aspects of Georgian society, including employment, income, religion, media consumption, political preferences, and institutional trust. It contains data of 24 waves of omnibus surveys between 2019-2025: discuss-data.net/dataset/696d...

A fascinating and unique new dataset on Discuss Data offers a deep insight into the change of #language usage in #Ukraine. The open access dataset consists of merged data from 141 representative surveys conducted between 1991-2024 by KIIS: doi.org/10.48320/A64...

We forgot to mention the author: @aaronerlich.bsky.social

Discuss Data@discussdata.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Reading recommendation: In a recently published article in Post-Soviet Affairs, Aaron Erlich conducts a survey in Ukraine to learn more about survey research during war. He concludes: "The results demonstrate wartime attitudes and behavior in Ukraine can be reliably measured" doi.org/10.1080/1060...

Reading recommendation: In a recently published article in Post-Soviet Affairs, Aaron Erlich conducts a survey in Ukraine to learn more about survey research during war. He concludes: "The results demonstrate wartime attitudes and behavior in Ukraine can be reliably measured" doi.org/10.1080/1060...

Two implications of survey research mode during war: evidence from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Conducting social science research during an active war raises distinct challenges. To investigate the relationship between mode and both coverage and social desirability bias during wartime, I con...

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Reading recommendation: @alinanychyk.bsky.social and Paul D'Anieri discuss "Ukrainian public opinion and the path to peace with Russia". Some of the cited surveys are available on @discussdata.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In recent days, our colleagues from the Caucasus Research Resource Center in Tblisi have published a lot of #OpenAccess datasets on #Georgia on our Discuss Data platform, among them a #survey on "Conflicts in Georgia: Perceptions, Attitudes and Expectations 2024": discuss-data.net/dataset/519c...

A new blogpost by @edklein.bsky.social for the Konkoop DataLab BLOG summarizes what our Discuss Data project essentially is: A safe haven for data from increasingly authoritarian contexts, a collaborative space for research data management, a place to discuss data 👇 konkoop.de/index.php/bl...