RuBase

Russia is back. After two decades of – checkered – attempts at rapprochement between the West and Russia, the Russian leadership has opted for a more confrontational and assertive foreign and security policy. All along Europe’s periphery, Russia is once again a factor to be reckoned with, even for the Netherlands (trade, cyber, Art 5, political influence, etc.),

Latest Research

Catch up on our latest research on the topic of Russia.

From Blurred Lines to Red Lines: How Countermeasures and Norms Shape Hybrid Conflict | Responding to Russian Disinformation in Peacetime

From Blurred Lines to Red Lines: How Countermeasures and Norms Shape Hybrid Conflict | Protecting Electoral Infrastructure from Russian Cyberoperations

Reimagining Deterrence: Towards Strategic (Dis)Suasion Design

Far-Right Trends in South Eastern Europe: The Influences of Russia, Croatia, Serbia and Albania

Military Competition in Perspective: Trends in Major Powers’ Postures and Perceptions

NATO’s Futures through Russian and Chinese Beholders’ Eyes

Geopolitical Influences of External Powers in the Western Balkans

Global Security Pulse August 2018: (Russian) Political Warfare

Inside the Kremlin House of Mirrors: how liberal democracies can counter Russian disinformation and societal interference

Hoe beschermen wij ons tegen Russische desinformatie?

From Assertiveness to Aggression: Russian Foreign and Security Policy

Beyond the Cold War of Words

All Research

About RuBase

RuBase is a multi-year research program that sets out to improve our understanding of Russia’s multi-domain international behavior. The ‘base’ in RuBase refers both to the knowledge base the team is building and to its (aspirationally) foundational nature.

Why RuBase?

To elicit deeper knowledge and understanding about this topic a variety of new methods are introduced including open-source text- and data-sets and -mining tools explored through both human analysis and (supervised and unsupervised) machine-learning algorithms. This should generate a new visual and interactive knowledge base on Russia. The RuBase will serve as a platform for Russian experts in the field to explore new collaborative ways of cumulative knowledge building on this topic that is only gaining in policy relevance.

What is RuBase?

This multi-year project sets out to explore new text- and number-based datasets, -tools and methods, using a corpus systematically compiled through relevant search queries, combined with different additional data sets like elite opinion surveys, event data sets (GDELT, ICEWS, Phoenix, TERRIER), economic, demographic, military, political, etc. datasets, to improve our knowledge about Russia’s multi-domain coercion/international behavior more broadly. It will yield a new knowledge base on Russia (RuBase) that will be highly visual and interactive.

RuBase will be a knowledge base on Russia’s international coercion/behavior

Using new open-source text- and data-sets and -mining tools to elicit deeper knowledge and understanding

Aiming to expose Russian experts to new datasets and -tools and to examine to how they can enrich our understanding

The project is spearheaded by Georgia-Tech and HCSS and funded by CCNY

Kremlin House Experts

Stephan de Spiegeleire

Principal Scientist

Tim Sweijs

Director of Research

Hugo van Manen

Strategic Analyst

Paul Verhagen

Data Scientist

Anastasiia Shchepina

Research Fellow

Yar Batoh

Research Fellow

Daria Goriacheva

Data Scientist

Yevhen Sapolovych

Research Fellow

Khrystyna Holynska

Research Fellow

RuBase

Latest Research

From Blurred Lines to Red Lines: How Countermeasures and Norms Shape Hybrid Conflict | Responding to Russian Disinformation in Peacetime

From Blurred Lines to Red Lines: How Countermeasures and Norms Shape Hybrid Conflict | Protecting Electoral Infrastructure from Russian Cyberoperations

Reimagining Deterrence: Towards Strategic (Dis)Suasion Design

Far-Right Trends in South Eastern Europe: The Influences of Russia, Croatia, Serbia and Albania

Military Competition in Perspective: Trends in Major Powers’ Postures and Perceptions

NATO’s Futures through Russian and Chinese Beholders’ Eyes

Geopolitical Influences of External Powers in the Western Balkans

Global Security Pulse August 2018: (Russian) Political Warfare

Inside the Kremlin House of Mirrors: how liberal democracies can counter Russian disinformation and societal interference

Hoe beschermen wij ons tegen Russische desinformatie?

From Assertiveness to Aggression: Russian Foreign and Security Policy

Beyond the Cold War of Words