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Scholarly articles in English (2013 on)

*2026*

1. Rallying around the Soviet Banner in Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election. *Russian Politics*, 11(4): 666-700. DOI: [10.30965/24518921-12341069](https://doi.org/10.30965/24518921-12341069)
2. Us and Them and the imperial power motive syndrome: a comparative analysis of the political and media discourses on the Russo-Ukrainian War. *Corpora*, 21(1). DOI: [10.3366/cor.2026.0356](https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/cor.2026.0356)
3. Us and Them in wartime: The discursive dimension of a geopolitical conflict. Discourse & Communication, 20(3):472-497. DOI: [10.1177/17504813261438566](https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/88WHFEHIYZ4YQG5BANSQ/full)
4. Military casualties as political and media constructs: an explorative study of the Russo-Ukrainian war losses. *Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict*, online first. DOI:  [10.1080/17467586.2026.2662888](https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JZYMPJMKY2FAV9VRWV7A/full?target=10.1080/17467586.2026.2662888)

*2025*

1. Assessing tu quoque arguments using real-world data: media coverage of the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine. *Argumentation and Advocacy*, online first. DOI: [10.1080/10511431.2025.2600219](https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C8GF7MIPEGNTBDIWAJYE/full?target=10.1080/10511431.2025.2600219)
2. Digital and mass media coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine compared: Uniformity within countries and diversity between countries. *International Communication Gazette*, online first. DOI: [10.1177/17480485251357866](https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FBYXR5RAEESIDUKBQSDN/full)
3. Geopolitical dimension of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: a study of states’ media footprint. *International Politics*, online first. DOI: [10.1057/s41311-025-00715-8](https://rdcu.be/ethPk)
4. Assessing Wartime Leaders' Motives: A Comparative Study of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the World War II. *Conflict Resolution Quarterly*, online first. DOI: [10.1002/crq.21479](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/HUN8ZPEGW232VCP6Q2VZ?target=10.1002/crq.21479)
5. Power of Labelling: Political and Media Discourses About the Russo-Ukrainian War. *Society*, online first. DOI: [10.1007/s12115-025-01071-2](https://rdcu.be/ecZLX)

*2024*

1. Public opinion in Ukraine and Russia: consequences of the all-out war, explanatory factors and its impact on political decisions. *Ukrainian Society*, 1-2(88-89): 131-148. DOI: [10.15407/socium2024.01-02.131](https://ukr-socium.org.ua/archive/no-1-2-88-89-2024/public-opinion-in-ukraine-and-russia-consequences-of-the-all-out-war-explanatory-factors-and-its-impact-on-political-decisions/) (in Ukrainian)
2. Semi-state violent actors of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: the case of PMC Wagner. Crime, Law and Social Change, online first. DOI: [10.1007/s10611-024-10180-8](https://rdcu.be/dVXcT)
3. On measurement of distances between texts in dictionary-based content analysis. *Quality & Quantity*, online first. DOI: [10.1007/s11135-024-01933-7](https://rdcu.be/dMUBW)
4. Bolivar can’t carry double? The impact of the Israel-Hamas war on media coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war. *Atlantic Journal of Communication*, online first. DOI: [10.1080/15456870.2024.2362625](https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2024.2362625)
5. Putting Discourses About the War in Ukraine on a Map: How Different is Everyone’s Story? *International Politics*, online first. DOI: [10.1057/s41311-024-00564-x](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41311-024-00564-x#citeas)
6. Propaganda channels and their comparative effectiveness: the case of Russia's war in Ukraine. *International Sociology*, online first. DOI: [10.1177/02685809241232637](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02685809241232637); lead author, co-author: Volodymyr Paniotto
7. Telegram channels covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: a comparative analysis of large multilingual corpora. Journal of Computational Social Science, online first. DOI: [10.1007/s42001-023-00240-9](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42001-023-00240-9)

*2023*

1. War propaganda unfolded: Comparative effectiveness of propaganda and counterpropaganda in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. *International Journal of Communication*, 17: [7265-7290](https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21746); lead author, co-author: Volodymyr Paniotto
2. A Bayesian index of association: comparison with other measures and performance. *Quality & Quantity*, online first. DOI: [10.1007/s11135-023-01639-2](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-023-01639-2)
3. War propaganda effectiveness: a comparative content-analysis of media coverage of the two first months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. *Atlantic Journal of Communication*, online first. DOI: [10.1080/15456870.2023.2187801](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15456870.2023.2187801)
4. A comparison of two text specificity measures analyzing a heterogenous text corpus. *Glottometrics*, 54: 1-12. DOI: [10.53482/2022\_54\_404](https://glottometrics.iqla.org/404-a-comparison-of-two-text-specificity-measures-analyzing-a-heterogenous-text-corpus/)
5. Governmentality in North American and post-Soviet political discourses: an analysis of presidential speeches and their analogues in the US, Canada, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan delivered from 1993 to 2021. *International Journal of Communication*, 17: [1837-1860](https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19809/4081).

*2022*

1. Content analysis as a method for heterodox economics. *Journal of Economic Issues*, 56(1): 259-280. DOI: [10.1080/00213624.2022.2025730](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00213624.2022.2025730)
2. Relevance in Web search: between content, authority and popularity*. Quality & Quantity*, 56(1): 173-194. DOI: [10.1007/s11135-021-01125-7](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-021-01125-7)

*2020*

1. Detection of opinion communities with the help of chance-corrected measures of agreement. SN *Computer science*, 1(3): art. 136. DOI: [10.1007/s42979-020-00129-8](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42979-020-00129-8)

*2019*

1. What are neural networks not good at? On artificial creativity. *Big Data & Society*, 6(1). DOI: [10.1177/2053951719839433](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053951719839433)
2. On the Role of Historical Myths in Nation-State Building: The Case of Ukraine. *Nationalities Papers*, 47(6): 1100-1116. DOI: [10.1017/nps.2018.32](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/abs/on-the-role-of-historical-myths-in-nationstate-building-the-case-of-ukraine/AC6424B2AE60C12A8536A182671017AB)

*2018*

1. Volunteers in Ukraine: From provision of services to state- and nation-building. *Journal of Civil Society*, 14(4): 364-385. DOI: [10.1080/17448689.2018.1518771](https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2018.1518771)
2. Open Economy or Protectionism: Ukraine’s Dilemma. *Montenegrin Journal of Economics*, 14(3): 109-127. DOI: [10.14254/1800-5845/2018.14-3.8](http://repec.mnje.com/mje/2018/v14-n03/mje_2018_v14-n03-a18.pdf)
3. On the role of foreign donors in rebuilding the Ukrainian nation-state*. Development in Practice*, 28(1): 165-175. DOI: [10.1080/09614524.2018.1405910](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09614524.2018.1405910)

*2017*

1. Transition impossible? Ukraine between violence and power. *The Journal of Political Power*, 10(3): 371-389. DOI: [10.1080/2158379X.2017.1382178](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2158379X.2017.1382178)
2. On academic reading: citation patterns and beyond. *Scientometrics*, 113(1) 417-435: DOI: [10.1007/s11192-017-2466-z](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-017-2466-z); lead author, co-authors: Svetlana Kirdina-Chandler, Irina Popova and Tatiana Shatalova

*2016*

1. Introduction: Between Universal and Culture-specific Interpretation of Human Dignity. *Comparative Sociology*, 15(6): 625-638. DOI: [10.1163/15691330-12341404](https://brill.com/view/journals/coso/15/6/article-p625_1.xml)
2. Honor and Human Rights: A Comparative Study of Russia and Ukraine. *Comparative Sociology*, 15(6): 669-698. DOI: [10.1163/15691330-12341406](https://brill.com/view/journals/coso/15/6/article-p669_3.xml?language=en)
3. Corruption on the road: a case study of Russian traffic police. *IATSS Research*, 40(1): 19-25. DOI: [10.1016/j.iatssr.2015.12.001](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iatssr.2015.12.001)

*2015*

1. The relocation of a repertoire of collective action: Maidan 2013. *European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology*, 2(2): 146-171. DOI: [10.1080/23254823.2015.1110291](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23254823.2015.1110291); lead author, co-author: Olga Strelkova
2. Price of opulence: on a constellation of interests in the European market for natural gas. *Baltic Worlds*, 8(3-4): [51-61](https://balticworlds.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Anton-Oleinik.pdf)
3. The language of power: a content analysis of presidential addresses in North America and the Former Soviet Union, 1993–2012. *International Journal of the Sociology of Language*, 236: 181–20. DOI: [10.1515/ijsl-2015-0026](https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2015-0026/html)
4. Benefits of entry control: the Russian case*. Post-Communist Economies*, 27(2): 216-232. DOI: [10.1080/14631377.2015.1026695](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14631377.2015.1026695)
5. The value of freedom: a case study of Ukraine. *Southeast European and Black Sea Studies*, 15(3): 239-259. DOI: [10.1080/14683857.2015.1015316](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14683857.2015.1015316)
6. Power distance, sub-ethnic groups and teams of civil servants: overlooked factors of administrative reform in Kazakhstan? *Public Policy and Administration*, 30(2): 182-205. DOI: [10.1177/0952076714559327](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0952076714559327); lead author, co-authors: Momysh Yermekov and Zharas Kuatbekov
7. On content analysis of images of mass protests: a case of data triangulation. *Quality & Quantity*, 49(5): 2203-220. DOI: [10.1007/s11135-014-0104-x)](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-014-0104-x)

*2014*

1. On the choice of measures of reliability and validity in the content-analysis of texts. *Quality & Quantity*, 48(5): 2703-2718. DOI: [10.1007/s11135-013-9919-0](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-013-9919-0); lead author, co-authors: Irina Popova, Svetlana Kirdina and Tatyana Shatalova
2. Access to Justice as a Form of Inequality. *Journal of Economic Issues,* 48(2): 405-413. DOI: [10.2753/JEI0021-3624480214](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/JEI0021-3624480214)
3. Conflict(s) of interest in peer review: Its origins and possible solutions. *Science and Engineering Ethics*, 20(1): 55-75. DOI: [10.1007/s11948-012-9426-z](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-012-9426-z)

***2013***

1. The social life of illegal drug users in prison: a comparative perspective. *European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice*, 21(2): 185-206. DOI: [10.1163/15718174-21022026](https://doi.org/10.1163/15718174-21022026)
2. The 2008 Financial Crisis through the Lens of Power Relationships. *Journal of Economic Issues,* 47(2): 465-483. DOI: [10.2753/JEI0021-3624470220](https://doi.org/10.2753/JEI0021-3624470220)
3. Mass Protests in the Context of the Russian Power Regime*. Russian Politics and Law*, 51(2). DOI: [10.2753/RUP1061-1940510202](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/RUP1061-1940510202)

Scholarly articles in French (2013 on)

*2016*

1. Entre localisme et universalisme : le *Maidan* ukrainien en 2013. In : Édité par [Brieg Capitaine](http://www.editions-msh.fr/livre/?GCOI=27351100724730&fa=author&Person_ID=6693&PublisherGCOICode=27351) et [Geoffrey Pleyers](http://www.editions-msh.fr/livre/?GCOI=27351100724730&fa=author&Person_ID=6616&PublisherGCOICode=27351), Postface de [Michel Wieviorka](http://www.editions-msh.fr/livre/?GCOI=27351100724730&fa=author&Person_ID=2982&PublisherGCOICode=27351), Mouvements sociaux: Quand le sujet devient acteur, Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, pp. [191-204](https://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/9917?lang=en)

 

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