Resigning to Inevitability. How Russians justify the military invasion of Ukraine (fall-winter 2022)

Svetlana Erpyleva is a sociologist, a researcher with the Public Sociology Laboratory and Centre for Independent Social Research (Russia). She is also a post-doctoral researcher at the Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen. She received her PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki. Her research is focused on protest movements and collective action, political involvement, political socialization, youth and children’s political participation in Russia and abroad. Currently, she coordinates a large-scale research project on how Russians perceive the current war in Ukraine.

Patterns and dynamics of political repressions before and during the war.

Natalia Yudina has worked since 2004 at the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis (now – SOVA Research Center). Since 2011 she is the head of the "Russian nationalism and xenophobia" project in SOVA and has widely published on the topic.

Alexander Verkhovskiy worked between 1989 and 2002 at the Panorama Research Center and since 2002 has been director of SOVA Center for Information and Analysis (now – SOVA Research Center). His areas of research are political extremism, nationalism and xenophobia, religion and politics, as well as misuse of anti-extremism policies in contemporary Russia.