Academic Research

Malyarenko, T., & Kormych, B. (2026). New People for the Old Empire: Russian Policy of Citizenship in the Occupied Territories of Ukraine and Beyond. Ethnopolitics, 25(1), 61–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2024.2386794

McGlynn, J., & Romaniuk, A. (2026). Capturing the minds: The role of child deportation in maintaining Russian authority over Ukraine’s occupied territories. European Journal of International Security, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2026.10056

Hofmeister, U. (2025). Colonialism or kolonizatsiia? Why the difference between Ukraine and Central Asia matters. Slavic Review, 84, 746–765. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2026.10317

Dodonov, Roman; Fesenko, Andrii; Glazunov, Volodymyr; Kapritsyn, Igor; and Stoliarchuk, Olesia (2025) "Religious Situation in the Occupied Territory of Donetsk Region," Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 45 : Iss. 6 , Article 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55221/2693-2229.2644

Voronovici, A. (2025). The ambiguities of the separatist symbolic “(Pro-)Russianness”: The case of the unrecognised Donetsk People’s Republic. Plural. History. Culture. Society, 14(2), 113–124. https://doi.org/10.37710/plural.v13i2_5

Barbieri, J. (2024). Raising Citizen-Soldiers in Donbas: Russia’s Role in Promoting Patriotic Education Programmes in the Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples’ Republics. Ethnopolitics, 23(5), 515–536. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2023.2220097

Malyarenko, T., & Kormych, B. (2024). New wild fields: How the Russian war leads to the demodernization of Ukraine’s occupied territories. Nationalities Papers, 52(3), 497–515. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2023.33

Moodrick-Even Khen, H. (2024). The Forcible Transfer of Children from Ukraine as Genocide: Awakening the Dormant Prohibition of the Genocide Convention. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 32(1), 78-118. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-32010004

Muelrath, L. (2024). “Never again” yet another genocide: Russia’s unlawful forced transfer and adoption of Ukrainian children. Wisconsin International Law Journal, 41(2), 219–256. https://doi.org/10.59015/wilj.QZEF9680

Volvach, N. (2024). Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea. Language in Society, 53(3), 523–548. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404523000325

Ioffe, Y. (2023). Forcibly Transferring Ukrainian Children to the Russian Federation: A Genocide? Journal of Genocide Research, 25(3–4), 315–351. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2023.2228085

Kormych, B., & Malyarenko, T. (2023). From gray zone to conventional warfare: The Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Black Sea. Small Wars & Insurgencies, 34(7), 1235–1270. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2022.2122278

Malyarenko, T., & Kormych, B. (2023). Russian policy towards the economy of occupied Ukrainian territories: crawling de-modernization. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 64(2), 220–237. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2023.2167097

Potočňák, A., & Mares, M. (2023). Donbas Conflict: How Russia’s Trojan Horse Failed and Forced Moscow to Alter Its Strategy. Problems of Post-Communism, 70(4), 341–351. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2066005

Savelyeva, N. (2023). The Donbas Dilemma: Examining Russia's Path to Full-Scale Intervention. Ukrainian Analytical Digest, 3, 2-6. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000646799

Savelyeva, N., Lysenko, Y., Burkhardt, F., Lewis, D., & Wendland, A. V. (2023, December 14). Russian occupation in Ukraine. ETH Zürich. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000646825

Wolfe, S. D., Denysenko, O., Krichker, D., Rebro, O., & Gunko, M. (2023). The intimate and everyday geopolitics of the Russian war against Ukraine. Geopolitics, 29(4), 1474–1501. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2222936

Burkhardt, F., Rabinovych, M., Wittke, C., & Bescotti, E. (2022). Passportization, Diminished Citizenship Rights, and the Donbas Vote in Russia's 2021 Duma Elections. (TCUP Report). Cambridge: Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-76864-5

Charron, A. (2022). Indigeneity, displacement, and regional place attachment among IDPs from Crimea. Geographical Review, 112(1), 86–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2020.1780128

Polovyan, A. V., Lepa, R. N., & Grinevskaya, S. N. (2022). The Donbass economy: State, development trends, and forecasts. Studies on Russian Economic Development, 33(2), 163–168. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075700722020101

Shynkarenko, M. (2022). Compliant subjects?: How the Crimean Tatars resist Russian occupation in Crimea. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 55(1), 76–98. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48752170

Fox, Amos. "Russo-Ukrainian Patterns of Genocide in the Twentieth Century." Journal of Strategic Security 14, no. 4 (2021) : 56-71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.14.4.1913 Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol14/iss4/4

Käihkö, I. (2021). A Conventional War: Escalation in the War in Donbas, Ukraine. The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 34(1), 24–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2021.1923984

Kuznetsova, I. (2021). The Feminist Geopolitics of Donbas: The Role of Art in Challenging Bordering1. Region, 10(1), 61–84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27127996

Shuvalova, I. (2021). “The Timeless Opolchenets”: Popular Songs and the Making of the Donbas Insurgent. Region, 10(1), 85–108. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27127997

Wilson, A. (2021). Imagining Crimean Tatar History since 2014: Indigenous Rights, Russian Recolonisation and the New Ukrainian Narrative of Cooperation. Europe-Asia Studies, 73(5), 837–868. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2020.1867709

Zhurzhenko, T. (2020/2021). A border on the move: The Ukrainian-Russian frontier from the Soviet collapse to the conflict in Donbas. In Yearbook Migration and Society 2020/2021: Focus “Beyond Borders”. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839455913-008

Alim, E. (2020), “Decentralize or Else”: Russia's Use of Offensive Coercive Diplomacy against Ukraine. World Affairs, 183: 155-182. https://doi.org/10.1177/0043820020919907

Bulakh, T. (2020). Entangled in social safety nets: Administrative responses to and lived experiences of internally displaced persons in Ukraine. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(3), 455–480. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48585277

Florea, A. (2020). Rebel governance in de facto states. European Journal of International Relations, 26(4), 1004-1031.

Hoban, I. (2021). Militarization of childhood(s) in Donbas: ‘Growing together with the Republic’. Cooperation and Conflict, 57, 108 - 129.

Kuznetsova, I., & Mikheieva, O. (2020). Forced Displacement from Ukraine’s War-Torn Territories: Intersectionality and Power Geometry. Nationalities Papers, 48(4), 690–706. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2020.34

Mykhnenko, V. (2020). Causes and consequences of the war in Eastern Ukraine: An economic geography perspective. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(3), 528–560. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2019.1684447

Bowen, A. S. (2019). Coercive diplomacy and the Donbas: Explaining Russian strategy in Eastern Ukraine. Journal of Strategic Studies, 42(3–4), 312–343. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2017.1413550

D’Anieri, P. (2019). Gerrymandering Ukraine? Electoral Consequences of Occupation. East European Politics and Societies, 33(1), 89-108.

Hauter, J. (2019). Delegated Interstate War: Introducing an Addition to Armed Conflict Typologies. Journal of Strategic Security, 12(4), 90–103. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26851262

Lennon, O., & Adams, G. (2019). All is quiet on the Russian front: ceasefires and the pursuit of legitimacy by self-proclaimed “republics” in Ukraine. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 60(6), 656–683. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2019.1645032

Giuliano, E. (2018). Who supported separatism in Donbas? Ethnicity and popular opinion at the start of the Ukraine crisis. Post-Soviet Affairs, 34(2–3), 158–178. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2018.1447769

Malyarenko, T., & Wolff, S. (2018). The logic of competitive influence-seeking: Russia, Ukraine, and the conflict in Donbas. Post-Soviet Affairs, 34(4), 191–212. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2018.1425083

Matsuzato, K. (2018). The Donbas war and politics in cities on the front: Mariupol and Kramatorsk. Nationalities Papers, 46(6), 1008–1027. https://doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2018.1480598

Myhre, M. H. (2018). Forced migrant “compatriots” from Ukraine: Accessing legal residency and citizenship in the Russian Federation. Nationalities Papers, 46(6), 1028–1045. https://doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2018.1488828

Rory Cormac, Richard J. Aldrich, Grey is the new black: covert action and implausible deniability, International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 3, May 2018, Pages 477–494, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiy067

Sasse, G., & Lackner, A. (2018). War and identity: the case of the Donbas in Ukraine. Post-Soviet Affairs, 34(2–3), 139–157. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2018.1452209

Kozachenko, I. (2017). Retelling old stories with new media: National identity and transnationalism in the “Russian Spring” popular uprisings. East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.21226/T2B01T

Lankina, T., & Watanabe, K. (2017). ‘Russian Spring’ or ‘Spring Betrayal’? The media as a mirror of Putin’s evolving strategy in Ukraine. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(10), 1526–1556.

Slyvka, R., Slyvka, L., & Atamaniuk, Y. (2017). Transformations of the cultural landscape of Donbas during the armed conflict 2015–2017.

Laruelle, M. (2016). The three colors of Novorossiya, or the Russian nationalist mythmaking of the Ukrainian crisis. Post-Soviet Affairs, 32(1), 55–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2015.1023004

Robinson, P. (2016). Russia’s role in the war in Donbass, and the threat to European security. European Politics and Society, 17(4), 506–521. https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2016.1154229

Mosquera, B. M., & Bachmann, S. D. (2016). Lawfare in hybrid wars: The 21st century warfare. Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, 7(1), 63–87. https://doi.org/10.1163/18781527-00701008

Wilson, A. (2016). The Donbas in 2014: Explaining Civil Conflict Perhaps, but not Civil War. Europe-Asia Studies, 68(4), 631–652. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2016.1176994

Zhukov, Y. M. (2016). Trading hard hats for combat helmets: The economics of rebellion in eastern Ukraine. Journal of Comparative Economics, 44(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2015.10.010

Giuliano, E. (2015). The Social Bases of Support for Self-determination in East Ukraine. Ethnopolitics, 14(5), 513–522. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2015.1051813

Uehling, G. (2024). Population displacement and the Russian occupation of Crimea: “Never again” becomes “again and again.” In Dispossession. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003382607-5

Tarkhanova, O. (2023). No longer a citizen: Dispossession in Eastern Ukraine. In Dispossession. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003382607-6