CORUSCANT / ZOiS Conference, « Taking Stock: Russia and the Russians Four Years After the Full-Scale Invasion »

Four years into the full-scale Russian war against Ukraine and the wider geopolitical confrontation between Russia and the West, academic knowledge production about Russia has changed profoundly. Some methods have become unavailable, others continue to be used, but while similar methods continue to be used, the conditions under which insights can be generated are fundamentally different.

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Seminar Coruscant: Arnold Khachaturov, « The Transparent Black Box: The Politics of Open Data in Russia After 2022 »

Arnold Khachaturov is a sociologist and journalist, head of the data department at the independent Russian media in exile Novaya Gazeta Europe and founder of the Cedar (Center for Data and Research on Russia). He is also a PhD candidate at EHESS (Paris), studying how quantitative data shape knowledge about contemporary Russia.

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