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Review of Tomila Lankina (2018): Lankina Russian Protest-Event Dataset

Version 1.0, published: April 20, 2025.

Nathalie Rathkamp


Main category: Protests
Curated by: Jan Matti Dollbaum
Dataset ownership has been transferred. Previous users: Nathalie Rathkamp (until March 31, 2025, 12:37 p.m.), Heiko Pleines (until April 1, 2025, 1:39 p.m.)
Additional categories: Civil Society And Interest Groups
Nathalie Rathkamp (2025): Review of Tomila Lankina (2018): Lankina Russian Protest-Event Dataset (published on Discuss Data), v. 1.0, Discuss Data, https://doi.org/10.48320/671E83A6-0492-4A3B-8DF7-659405441349

Description

The Lankina Russian protest event dataset (LaruPED) is a project by Tomila Lankina that covers a wide range of protests across Russia in the time period from March 2007 to December 2016. It defines a protest as: “Citizens’ public expression of dissent or critique” (Lankina 2019) and is thus not imposing a necessary number of participants as a prerequisite for a protest to be included in this dataset. The unit of analysis in the LaruPED dataset is the event-day-location, meaning events that occur in multiple locations are coded as separate entries. In total the dataset contains 5.824 coded protests (Lankina 2019). As of summer 2024, it is unclear whether work on the data collection is continuing.
The data review includes a link to the LSE Research Online website from which the dataset, as well as additional information about the dataset in the form of a codebook and a descriptive text, is available for download.

Countries

Russia

Keywords

Repression Protests Regions Political Protests Economic Protests Social Protests Cultural Protests Legal Protests Evironmental Protests Electoral Authoritarianism

Language of data

English

Methods of data collection

Desk Research Event Data Text Coding