Publications
- Kling, J., & Poliakoff, S. (2026). Not only compatriots: A typology of foreign Facebook audiences engaging with Russia’s domestic news. Media, War & Conflict. Published online first at: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352261435488
- Poliakoff, S., & Kling, J. (2026). Mapping the disinformation industry in Russia. New Media & Society. Published online first at: https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261452207
- Poliakoff, S., & Toepfl, F. (2026). Prigozhin’s Propaganda Team: The St Petersburg Internet Research Agency (2013–2021). Europe-Asia Studies, 78(1), 91–112. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.258833
- Poliakoff, S.; Toepfl, F.; Kling, J. (2026): ANO Dialog: innovation in controlling Russia’s digital information. Post-Soviet Affairs, 42(1), 107–130. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2025.2559218
- Beseler, A., Toepfl, F., Kravets, D., & Kling, J. (2026). Disrupting or invigorating an anti-democratic counterpublic? How highly active commenters engage on RT German’s Facebook page. New Media & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251413136
- Toepfl, F., & Mathyl, M. (2026). Russia and Dissensus over Liberal Democracy in Europe. In R. Coman, C. Bădulescu, T. Christiansen, & M. Simoncini (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Dissensus over Liberal Democracy in Europe (pp. 997–1015). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-22481-1_55
- Beseler, A., & Toepfl, F. (2025). Conduits of the Kremlin's Informational Influence Abroad? How German-Language Alternative Media Outlets Are Connected to Russia's Ruling Elites. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 30(3), 659–678. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241230284
- Kling, J., & Poliakoff, S. (2025). Facebook, the EU and Russia’s war: Challenges of moderating authoritarian news. Internet Policy Review, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.14763/2025.3.2036
- Kling, J., Toepfl, F., & Jürgens, P. (2025). Entertainment interspersed with propaganda: how non-legacy-news accounts deliver explicitly political content to mass audiences on Russia’s most popular social network VK. Information, Communication & Society, 28(7), 1252–1269. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2420029
- Poliakoff, S. (2025). Nach dem Aufstand: der Untergang von Jewgenij Prigoschins digitalem Imperium. Russland-Analysen(464), 16–20. https://doi.org/10.31205/RA.464.03
- Poliakoff, S. (2025). Trolls Behind the Mask of Journalists: How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Patriot Media Group Was Organized. Problems of Post-Communism, 72(5), 416–428. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2024.2438336
- Poliakoff, S., Toepfl, F., & Kling, J. (2025). ANO Dialog: innovation in controlling Russia’s digital information. Post-Soviet Affairs, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2025.2559218
- Ryzhova, A., & Toepfl, F. (2025). The Consequences of Evidence- Versus Non-Evidence-Based Understandings of the “Truth”: How Russian Speakers in Germany Negotiate Trust in Their Transnational News Environments. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 30(1), 326–345. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241257872
- Töpfl, F. (2025). Brutalisierung und Repression. Osteuropa, 75(1-3), 351–364. https://doi.org/10.35998/oe-2025-022
- Beseler, A. (2024). Wie deutschsprachige alternative Medien vom Kreml unterwandert und instrumentalisiert werden. Russland-Analysen, 456, 2–4. https://laender-analysen.de/russland-analysen/456/deutsch-alternative-medien-kreml-russland/
- Toepfl, F. & Beseler, A. (2024). Wie die Herrschaftselite Russlands den Krieg kommuniziert – „Strategische Regierungskommunikation“ in einer personalistischen Autokratie. In M. Löffelholz, K. Schleicher & C. Trippe (Ed.), Krieg der Narrative: Russland, die Ukraine und der Westen (pp. 33-46). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331508-003
- Kravets, D. (2024). Search Engines as “Globalizing Machines”: International News Flow Through Google During the 2020 Belarusian Presidential Election. International Journal Of Communication, 18, 2577-2597. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/20113/4616
- Kravets, D., Beseler, A., Toepfl, F., & Ryzhova, A. (2024). The Kremlin-Controlled Search Engine Yandex as a Tool of Foreign Propaganda. Russian Analytical Digest, 313, 11–15. https://css.ethz.ch/en/publications/rad/rad-all-issues-and-articles/details.html?id=/n/o/3/1/no_313_russian_foreign_propaganda_in_occ
- Beseler, A., & Toepfl, F. (2024). Conduits of the Kremlin’s Informational Influence Abroad? How German-Language Alternative Media Outlets Are Connected to Russia’s Ruling Elites. The International Journal of Press/Politics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241230284
- Kravets, D., Ryzhova, A., Toepfl, F., & Beseler, A. (2023). Different platforms, different plots? The Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex as a resource for Russia’s informational influence in Belarus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journalism, 24(12), 2762-2780. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231157845
- Toepfl, F., Ryzhova, A., Kravets, D., & Beseler, A. (2023). Googling in Russian Abroad: How Kremlin-Affiliated Websites Contribute to the Visibility of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in Search Results. International Journal Of Communication, 17, 1126–1146. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19423/4042
- Toepfl, F., Kravets, D., Ryzhova, A., & Beseler, A. (2022). Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia’s foreign communication. Information, Communication & Society, 26(10), 2033-2051. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2065213
- Kling, J., Toepfl, F., Thurman, N., & Fletcher, R. (2022). Mapping the website and mobile app audiences of Russia’s foreign communication outlets, RT and Sputnik, across 21 countries. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 3(6). https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-110
- Kling, J. (2022). Mapping the Global Audiences of Russia’s Domestic News: How Social Networks Function as Transmitters of Authoritarian News to Foreign Audiences. International Journal of Communication, 16, 23. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19073
- Ryzhova, A. (2022). Motivated by political beliefs, not only by language: How Russian speakers in Germany compose their transnational news repertoires. Journalism, 25(1), 218-237. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221130557
- Kravets, D., & Toepfl, F. (2021). Gauging Reference and Source Bias Over Time: How Russia’s Partially State-Controlled Search Engine Yandex Mediated an Anti-Regime Protest Event. Information, Communication & Society, 25(15), 2207-2223. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1933563
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