Academic Publications

Monographien / Monographs

• Fomina, Joanna. Political dissent and democratic remittances: The activities of Russian migrants in Europe, Routledge, 2022.
• Stevnhøj, Katrine. Reclaiming Homelands : Counter-Hegemonic Identity Narratives of Belarusian and Russian Political Exiles, PhD thesis, 2024, University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

Artikel in Journals mit Peer-Review / Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Bronnikova, Olga; Gavrilova, Sofia; Margvelashvili, Tamara. Finding the Common Ground: Visibility, Cooperation and Tensions between Russian and Georgian Civil Society Initiatives in Tbilisi, 2023, in: Problems of Post-Communism, 2025, 1–13.

• Bronnikova, Olga. Acting Together Outside Politics: Russian and Ukrainian Volunteers Helping Ukrainian Refugees in Tbilisi, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 2024, 32 (4), 441–458.

• Bronnikova, Olga; Zaytseva, Anna. Les lieux que crée l’exil: les migrants russes à Tbilissi, 2022-2024 [The places that exile creates: Russian migrants in Tbilisi, 2022-2024], Ethnologie française, forthcoming.
• Bygnes, Susanne; Sokolova, Tatiana. To Speak or Stay Silent? Russian Migrants in Norway and the Dilemma of Political Protest during the War in Ukraine, Sociology, published online 1 Feb 2026:1-17.
• Bygnes, Susanne. Krigsmotstand blant russiske migranter i Norge: Moralsk sjokk og kollektiv identitet [Resistance Against the War Among Russian Migrants in Norway: Moral Shock and Collective Identity], Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning 65(2), 2024, 63–77.

• Bygnes, Susanne. Russians against the war (RAW): diaspora protest against the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Post-Soviet Affairs, 2025, 1–15.

• Darieva, Tsypylma; Vakhtangashvili, Giorgi; Zimmermann, Philipp. Informal Sanctions and Patriotism From Below: Georgian-Russian Encounters in Tbilisi’s Housing Market in 2022, Nationalities Papers, published online 2025:1-17.

• Darieva, Tsypylma. Navigating political (dis)engagement: Russian wartime migrants in Georgia, Post-Soviet Affairs, 14 Nov 2025.

• Fomina, Joanna. Warring for peace and democracy: Russian migrant dissidents resorting to violent means of contestation, Post-Soviet Affairs, 2025, 1–24.

• Fomina, Joanna. Supporting Russian human rights defenders in exile: Best practices, current challenges: A case study of Czechia, Germany, Latvia, Poland and Portugal, The WOT Foundation, 2023.

• Fomina, Joanna. „Emigration mit Verantwortung“: Die Aktivitäten russischer demokratisch orientierter Migrant:innen und ihre Reaktionen in der EU auf Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine, Russland-Analysen, 2022 (420), 2–5.

• Fomina, Joanna. Voice, exit and voice again: Democratic remittances by recent Russian emigrants to the EU, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019 47(11), 2439–2458.

• Golova, Tatiana; Sablina, Liliia. Contested Diasporization in Wartime: Illiberal Mobilization of Russian-Speaking Migrants in Germany. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, vol. 32 no. 4, 2024, p. 413–439.

• Gurchiani, Ketevan. Global Aesthetics as an (Im)Perfect Shelter: Atmospheres of Belonging and Russian Migration in Tbilisi, Georgia, Eurasian Geography and Economics, October, 1–21.

• Jonutytė, Kristina; Ivanskis, Edvinas. Emigration as Refusal: Post-2022 Buryat Migration to Mongolia, Inner Asia, Vol. 27 No. 2 (2025), 362–386.

• Kamalov, Emil; Sergeeva, Ivetta. Helping Emigrants Flee a Political Crisis: How Antiwar Alignment Shapes the Aid Preferences of Wartime Russian Migrants. Perspectives on Politics, (2026), 1–15.

• Kostenko, Veronica; Kamalov, Emil; Sergeeva, Ivetta. Gender Egalitarianism of Recent Emigrants from Russia: The Effect of Emigration or a Trait of a Social Group?. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 1 March 2026; 59 (1): 38–52.

• Melkumyan, Yuliana; Melkonyan, Nvard. Immigration of Russian citizens to Armenia during the Russian-Ukrainian war that began in 2022: pull-push factors, Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan University, Vol. 2 No. 1(4) (2023), 137–147.
• Mieriņa, Inta; Laudere, Marika. Reimagining “Integration” in the Light of the New Forms of Mobility, International Migration Review, 2023.
• Pupcenoks, Juris; Rostoks, Toms; Mieriņa, Inta. Microfoundations of Threat and Security Perceptions in Ethnically Diverse States: Lessons from Russia’s “Near Abroad”, Nationalities Papers 52, No. 1 (2024), 120–45.
• Lefort, Bruno; Romashov, Vadim. Becoming ‘more like a Finn’: In‐visibility and the struggle for belonging in Finland, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2024, 1–15.
• Stevnhøj, Katrine. Migranter der blev aktivister: Pro-demokratisk mobilisering blandt russiske migranter i Danmark og Norge [Migrants Who Became Activists: Pro-Democratic Mobilization Among Russian Migrants in Denmark and Norway], Nordisk Oestforum, Vol. 37 (2023), 44–59.
• Sergeeva, Ivetta; Kamalov, Emil. Invisible Costs of Exiting Autocracy: Subjective Well-Being and Emotional Burnout among Russian Wartime Migrants. Post-Soviet Affairs, March, 2025, 1–27.

Kapitel in Sammelbänden / Chapters in edited volumes

• Bronnikova, Olga. Exilés russes en Géorgie: invisibilité politique et actions envers les réfugiés ukrainiens [Russian Exiles in Georgia: Political Invisibility and Actions Toward Ukrainian Refugees], Exil et politique, Paris, 2025.
• Fomina, Joanna; Kucharczyk, Jacek. The Immigration Policy Debate in Poland, 1989-2023: From Institutionalisation to Instrumentalisation, The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics, Oxford University Press, 2025.
• Kaprāns, Mārtiņš; Mieriņa, Inta. Minority Reconsidered: Towards a Typology of Latvia's Russophone Identity, The Russian-speaking Populations in the Post-Soviet Space, London, 2021, 24–47.
• Romashov, Vadim. Näkymättömästi läsnä: Venäjänkieliset äänet lähiössä [Invisibly Present: Russian-Language Voices in the Suburb], Naapurusto – Tarinoita moniäänisestä lähiöstä, Helsinki, 2021, 138–157.
• Zavadskaya, Margarita;  Kamalov, Emil; Sergeeva, Ivetta. Voice After Exit? Exploring Patterns of Civic Activism Among Russian Migrant Communities in Eurasia After 24 February 2022. Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2024.

Wissenskommunikation / Knowledge transfer  

• Böhmer, Jule; Darieva, Tsypylma; Höhbusch, Stefan. Diversität unter Druck. Ethnische und sprachliche Vielfalt in Russland, Russisch im Kontext – Impulse für den Unterricht, Heft 3, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) / Stiftung Deutsch-Russischer Jugendaustausch, December 2025.
• Darchiashvili, Mariam; Gurchiani, Ketevan; Mishakov, Nikita; Schenk, Caress. Local Responses to Russian Migration in Georgia and Kazakhstan, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo, No. 895, May 2024.
• Darieva, Tsypylma. Migration aus Russland nach Georgien und Armenien, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 18 April 2024.

• Golova, Tatiana; Selivanova, Galina. Intergenerational Dynamics among Russian-Speaking Anti-War and Pro-Democracy Activists in Germany, Russian analytical digest, 2024, No. 316.

• Jonutytė, Kristina. Sticky Relationships at Wartime, Allegra Lab, April 2023.
• Jonutytė, Kristina. Buryatia and Buryats in Light of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Russian Analytical Digest, Vol. 301 (2023), 7–10. 
• Kamalov, Emil; Kostenko, Veronica; Sergeeva, Ivetta; Zavadskaya, Margarita. Studying public opinion among migrants: challenges and opportunities, Russian analytical digest, 2023, No. 292, 18–20.
• Kamalov, Emil; Kostenko, Veronica; Sergeeva, Ivetta; Zavadskaya, Margarita. Befragungen von Emigrant:innen: Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten, Russland-Analysen, 2023, No. 430, 21–24.
• Kamalov, Emil; Kostenko, Veronica; Sergeeva, Ivetta; Zavadskaya, Margarita. Russia's 2022 anti-war exodus: the attitudes and expectations of Russian migrants, IERES, PONARS Eurasia, Policy Memo, 2022/790.
• Kamalov, Emil; Kostenko, Veronica; Sergeeva, Ivetta; Zavadskaya, Margarita. New Russian migrants against the war: political action in Russia and abroad, FES Russia Programme, Analysis Paper, The Russian Crisis, 2023/05.
• Ruseishvili, Svetlana; Sergeeva, Ivetta; Kamalov, Emil. Far from Home: Russians Relocating to Latin America, 2024.
• Sergeeva, Ivetta; Kamalov, Emil. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Russian Emigration in Flux.
• Sergeeva, Ivetta; Kamalov, Emil. A Year and a Half in Exile: Progress and Obstacles in the Integration of Russian Migrants, 2024.
• Sergeeva, Ivetta; Kamalov, Emil. Helping to Flee a Political Crisis: A Conjoint Experiment on the Aid Preferences of Wartime Russian Migrants, 2024.
• Stevnhøj, Katrine. Den selvudråbte eksilregering vil starte 'Et nyt Belarus' med at udstede: Pas [The self-proclaimed government-in-exile will start ‘A New Belarus’ by issuing: Passports], Ræson, 2023 (55).

• Stevnhøj, Katrine. Putins angrebskrig har udstillet Ruslands hjemlige problemer med racisme og imperialisme [Putin’s war of aggression has exposed Russia’s domestic problems with racism and imperialism], Dagbladet Information, 2023.

• Stevnhøj, Katrine. Den russiske eksilopposition mangler en fælles frontfigur og en samlende idé [The Russian opposition in exile lacks a common figurehead and a unifying idea], Dagbladet Information, 2023.

• Stevnhøj, Katrine. De baltiske lande har været et fristed for liberale russere og deres medier. Gælder det også fremover? [The Baltic countries have been a safe haven for liberal Russians and their media. Will that continue in the future?], Dagbladet Information, 2022.

• Zavadskaya, Margarita; Sergeeva, Ivetta; Kamalov, Emil. New activists or new ‘common folk?’ The evolution of political activism among Russian anti-war emigrants, 2023.

ZOiS-Publikationen / ZOiS Publications

• Darieva, Tsypylma; Golova, Tatiana; Skibo, Daria. Russian Migrants in Georgia and Germany: Activism in the Context of Russia’s War Against Ukraine, ZOiS Report, Nr. 3 (2023).
• Mieriņa, Inta. Der Krieg in der Ukraine und Lettlands russischsprachige Community, ZOiS Spotlight 13/2024, 26 June 2024. 

Öffentliche Auftritte / Public Appearances

• Bygnes, Susanne. Politisk mobilisering blant russiske migranter i Norge mot det russiske regimet [Political mobilization among Russian migrants in Norway against the Russian regime], Sosiopodden 12, 10 September 2024.
• Darieva, Tsypylma; Zavadskaya, Margarita. Russians on the Move: Reception and Response in Georgia and Armenia, Roundtable Osteuropa 57, 13 November 2025.