Data & Tools
Our methods allow us to conduct online research on public opinion, sociology, and discourse analysis; explore digital geography and examine the impact of events; compile and process open-source information; and fulfill other research objectives using data.
We are a consortium of five labs: The Russia Program, CORUSCANT, RIMA, RuBase and CEDAR
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RESEARCH
Social media monitoring on the eve of the presidential elections in Russia
More than 100 thousand Russian public organizations are involved in election advertising. These mainly include schools, kindergartens, and local administrations. Public sector employees are directly campaigning to vote for Putin. At the same time, the presidential elections are not the most important topic on the agenda of state media. Here is a data-driven review of the Russian pre-elections campaign on social media.
CEDAR
July 25, 2025
Digital Methods School
The mission of the Digital Methods School is to enhance the quality of research in the field of Russian studies, as well as other related fields, by empowering scholars and experts to employ advanced digital research methods without requiring specialized IT training.
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RESEARCH
CORUSCANT
How to uncover electoral fraud in
Russia using statistics:
a complete guide
August 14, 2025
August 14, 2025
Culturalizing the Nation: A Quantitative Approach to the Russki/
Rossiiskii Semantic Space in
Russia's Political Discourse
RUSSIA PROGRAM
August 14, 2025
August 14, 2025
The war in Ukraine, open source investigation and the potential for "digital fieldwork" in geopolitics
CEDAR
CEDAR
Can Russian data be trusted? A hazard map of official statistics
TOOLS
Prigozhin's Galaxy
A map that systematizes all the activities of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his networks around the world, based on data collected from open sources over several years.
A quantitative analysis of Putin's public discourse derived from computational linguistic research of his speeches
A map that systematizes all the activities of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his networks around the world, based on data collected from open sources over several vears.
Putin's Head
Russian Courts
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EXPLORE THE INTERFACE
EXPLORE THE DATA
OUR EVENTS
How To Uncover Election
Fraud Through Data
"Kievan Rus' Is Ours!" State
Identity, National Memory, and Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
"Kievan Rus' Is Ours!" State
Identity, National Memory, and Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
"Kievan Rus' Is Ours!" State
Identity, National Memory, and Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
RuBase
RuBase
RuBase
RuBase
DATA
Archive of Russian
Independent Media
Independent Russian media archived from the year 2000 through the present day
RIMA
Archive of Russian
Independent Media
Independent Russian media archived from the year 2000 through the present day
RIMA
Archive of Russian
Independent Media
Independent Russian media archived from the year 2000 through the present day
RIMA