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Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research is an open-access international journal that publishes materials in Russian and English.


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Current Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2026)

Published: 10.06.2026

Lead Editor: Veronica Davidov

Articles

Symbolic Violence as a Factor in the Integration of Transboundary Migrants from Central Asia and the South Caucasus into Siberian Cities

Dmitry Timoshkin
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Page 4-29
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“You Cannot Walk, but You Must Dance”: Injury in the Narratives of Ballet Dancers

Anna Esenova
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Page 30-52
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“GPs Are Just Registrars!”: The Formation of Professionalism Among General Practitioners in Kazakhstan

Julia Khan, Zhanar Kadyrbek, Asiya Sheri, Sabina Shaimerdenova
Abstract 185 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 89
Page 53-79
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(Re)Production of Border Proximity: Bordering Communities of Post-Soviet Armenia

Harutyun Vermishyan, Mariam Mirzoyan
Abstract 238 | PDF Downloads 95
Page 80-102
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Book Reviews

Rossen Djagalov. Ot internatsionalizma k postkolonializmu: Literatura i kinematograf mezhdu vtorym i tretʹim mirom. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2025

Sergei Abashin
Abstract 220 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 93
Page 103-107
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Nicole Eaton. German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023

Dmitry Astashkin
Abstract 194 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 77
Page 108-112
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Larry E. Holmes. Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921–1985. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2024

Denis Baranov
Abstract 173 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 68
Page 113-118
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Douglas C. Nord. Sister City Diplomacy: Community Engagement in US-Russian Relations from the Cold War to Today. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025

Elena S. Bell
Abstract 185 | PDF Downloads 78
Page 119-124
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Anna Shadrina. The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia. London: UCL Press, 2025

Julia Zelikova
Abstract 216 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 89
Page 125-130
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Erika Mann. Shkola varvarov: Vospitanie pri natsistakh. Saint Petersburg: Jaromír Hladík Press, 2023

Anna Kolotovkina
Abstract 162 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 74
Page 131-137
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Tatʹiana Borisova. Kogda velit sovestʹ: Kulʹturnye istoki Sudebnoi reformy 1864 goda v Rossii. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2025

Nikolaj Plotnikov
Abstract 166 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 72
Page 138-142
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Françoise Daucé, Benjamin Loveluck, and Francesca Musiani, eds. Digital Authoritarianism in the Making: Repression and Resistance on the Russian Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2025

Viktoriia Rybina
Abstract 177 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 72
Page 143-146
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Olessia Kirtchik. Economic Knowledge in Crisis: Economists and the State in the Late Soviet Union. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Joachim Zweynert
Abstract 176 | PDF Downloads 60
Page 147-149
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Authors

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