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Seeing the Invisible: Studying Russia through Alternative and Indirect Data Sources

Seeing the Invisible: Studying Russia through Alternative and Indirect Data Sources by Alexander Keysut, Senior Researcher, Cedar https://cedarus.io/ Since 2022, traditional methods of social science research in Russia — including fieldwork and surveys — have become increasingly difficult to implement. At the same time, a wide range of administrative, digital, and textual data remains available, allowing researchers to study social, political, and economic processes indirectly. Alexander Keysut is an economist and data analyst with many years of experience working on open data projects in Russia. He contributed to the development of a court decisions parser covering Russian courts — a tool downloaded several hundred times by researchers and independent journalists, and used as the basis for more than a dozen published investigations and analytical pieces. Alexander specializes in large-scale data processing, statistical analysis, and building data infrastructure for civic and research purposes, with deep expertise in working with Russian administrative and judicial datasets.