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The updated #OpenAccess dataset by Heiko Pleines on #Oligarchs in #Ukraine between 2000-2025 gives a profound overview of the development of Ukraine's richest persons. In this version, information on leaked offshore links and sanctions have been added: discuss-data.net/dataset/0836...

A new dataset on #Georgia is online, providing rich data on key aspects of Georgian society, including employment, income, religion, media consumption, political preferences, and institutional trust. It contains data of 24 waves of omnibus surveys between 2019-2025: discuss-data.net/dataset/696d...

A fascinating and unique new dataset on Discuss Data offers a deep insight into the change of #language usage in #Ukraine. The open access dataset consists of merged data from 141 representative surveys conducted between 1991-2024 by KIIS: doi.org/10.48320/A64...

We forgot to mention the author: @aaronerlich.bsky.social

Two implications of survey research mode during war: evidence from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine Conducting social science research during an active war raises distinct challenges. To investigate the relationship between mode and both coverage and social desirability bias during wartime, I con...

Reading recommendation: In a recently published article in Post-Soviet Affairs, Aaron Erlich conducts a survey in Ukraine to learn more about survey research during war. He concludes: "The results demonstrate wartime attitudes and behavior in Ukraine can be reliably measured" doi.org/10.1080/1060...

Reading recommendation: @alinanychyk.bsky.social and Paul D'Anieri discuss "Ukrainian public opinion and the path to peace with Russia". Some of the cited surveys are available on @discussdata.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In recent days, our colleagues from the Caucasus Research Resource Center in Tblisi have published a lot of #OpenAccess datasets on #Georgia on our Discuss Data platform, among them a #survey on "Conflicts in Georgia: Perceptions, Attitudes and Expectations 2024": discuss-data.net/dataset/519c...

A new blogpost by @edklein.bsky.social for the Konkoop DataLab BLOG summarizes what our Discuss Data project essentially is: A safe haven for data from increasingly authoritarian contexts, a collaborative space for research data management, a place to discuss data 👇
konkoop.de/index.php/bl...

A new dataset on #Kazakhstan has been published on Discuss Data: Internet and Social Media Use for Information about (Inter)National News and Politics in Kazakhstan, based on Central Asia Barometer survey data and available in open access:
discuss-data.net/dataset/7da4...

As talk of negotiations continues, ordinary Russians remain uncompromising. Around 40% say that troops should withdraw only after annexing part of Ukraine & regime change (i.e., ousting Zelensky). Only 10% support an unconditional, immediate withdrawal.

Many datasets have been recently published on our platform. Among them "Attitudes Toward Stalin and the Soviet Past in Ukraine" (OA). It provides insightful longitudinal data on how public opinion in #Ukraine on #Stalin and the #USSR changed between 1991–2024: discuss-data.net/dataset/1447...

Participants of the DiscussDataLab in front of a statue of the Bremen town musicians. Foto by Assiya Issemberdiyeva.

We’re excited about the success of our first #DiscussDataLab we had this week! From challenges of data preparation/publication/visualization to ethics, methodology, and exchanges on participants’ own research data - it was a great & insightful workshop. Many thanks to all participants & experts!

Preparations for our first #DiscussDataLab next Monday are nearly complete! We can’t wait to welcome participants to Bremen for lively discussions on “all things data” with our experts. Check out the full program: discuss-data.net

A unique dataset by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) on Self-Assessed Household Financial Situation in Ukraine (1994-2024) was published in open access. It provides a longitudinal overview, how personal financial well-being changed over three decades: discuss-data.net/dataset/b78f...

How did Ukrainians' views on victory in the Russo-Ukrainian War change over time? A new merged dataset by DIF based on eight survey waves between 2022 and 2024 provides a longitudinal perspective on this topic. The open access data is accessible on Discuss Data and Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1567...

Today Discuss Data was presented at the workshop “Science Excellence in Central Asia: Between SCOPUS Fetishisation, Predatory Journals, and Survival Strategies of Researchers” in Tashkent. The presentation showcased how Discuss Data helps researchers boost the visibility of their work & access #data

Our colleague Felix Herrmann attended the "The Most Documented War: Enacting Archives" symposium in Lviv, Ukraine, where he gave a well-attended presentation on data archiving and publication in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Photos: Center for Urban History / Bohdan Yemets.

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Visibility, Access, Power: Why research data infrastructure matters With Felix Herrmann, Ivaylo Dinev and Kerstin Bischl

Our colleague Felix Herrmann explained in the recent @zois.bsky.social-podcast, why research data matters, especially for researching Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where governments use data for surveillance and make it increasingly difficult to access data: www.zois-berlin.de/podcast-roun...

Next week, Discuss Data will be present at the Symposium "The Most Documented War: Enacting Archives" which takes place in Lviv/Ukraine. If anyone happens to be there: talk to us!
More information about the event:
www.index-ukraine.org/news/the-mos...

The New Ukrainian School (NUS) is a major school reform in Ukraine, and in the society there is high approval for it. But what do those affected actually think about NUS? New survey data, available in open access on Discuss Data, reveals what teachers think about the NUS: doi.org/10.48320/3E9...

How happy are Ukrainians? This new longitudinal dataset provides an insight into the state of happiness in #Ukraine between 2001-2024. The data, provided by the renowned Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), is available on Discuss Data in open access: doi.org/10.48320/0CD...

The data is available here: discuss-data.net/dataset/52ec...

For all those with knowledge of the Finnish language (or those who use DeepL): The cultural magazine "Nuori Voima" has published an interesting piece based on the "No wobble" anti-war street art protests in #Russia (data/images are available on Discuss Data) nuorivoima.fi/lue/essee/pa...

Two more days left to apply for our 1st DiscussDataLab! Are you working with research data on Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus or Central Asia? Do you need to archive/publish your data, but don't know how to do it properly? Then apply: discuss-data.net#datalab

Yesterday at the US-Russia talks in Saudi-Arabia, Russia demanded full control of the 4 Ukrainian territories it currently occupies in part.
But for the majority of Ukrainians this is not acceptable. The latest KIIS-data on territorial concessions is available here: discuss-data.net/dataset/1f67...

Reminder for the #CfA for our very first #DiscussDataLab on „Challenges of Data Collection, Re-use, and Analysis: Public Opinion, Political Debates, and Protests in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War“ that will take place in Bremen from 25-27.08.2025.
Info & application: discuss-data.net#datalab

This article (including data on Telegram channels) on protests in Belarus is currently in open access.
If you‘re interested, Discuss Data has some more data sets on this topic!

#Corruption is one of the hot topics in #Ukraine. We are happy that the data of one of the most comprehensive corruption surveys is now available on Discuss Data: A merged dataset based on 8 surveys on corruption perception / experience / attitudes between 2007-2024: discuss-data.net/dataset/cf7e...

Some interesting data here 👇
(more interesting public opinion data on the topic can be found here: discuss-data.net/categories/p...)