Abstract In 2014, eight years prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian-backed separatists seized parts Ukrainian regions Luhansk and Donetsk. Shortly thereafter, thousands Ukrainians voluntarily enrolled various paramilitary battalions. Unlike Right Sector's Volunteer Corps (RS VUC), almost all battalions were incorporated into official defence structures. Applying uncertainty-...

Tumblr is one of the largest and most popular microblogging website on the Internet. Studies shows that due to high reachability among viewers, low publication barriers and social networking connectivity, microblogging websites are being misused as a platform to post hateful speech and recruiting new members by existing extremist groups. Manual identification of such posts and communities is ov...

The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has been watched by millions through the lens of social media. This “crowd” of social media users has given the group broad reach resulting in a massive online support community that is an essential element of their public affairs and resourcing strategies. Other extremist groups have begun to leverage social media as well. Online Extremi...

Today, extremism is one of the main threats to security entire world community, including Russian Federation. it a multifactorial problem our time, both for community and Federation, which has domestic foreign policy components. These manifestations form an environment that threatens progressive development as whole, Federation in particular. The history context political phenomenon indicates i...

Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...