Maxim Alyukov

Maxim Alyukov is a research fellow at King’s Russia Institute at King’s College London and a researcher with Public Sociology Laboratory (Centre for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg). He works on media, political communication, and political cognition in authoritarian countries with a special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet region.

In Russia, opinion polls are a political weapon

Russia’s state-controlled pollsters manipulate surveys to provide the results the regime wants

By Maxim Alyukov

/ 9 Mar 2022

In Russia, opinion polls are a political weapon

Conspiracy theory has gone mainstream in Russia. But how does it work?

Inside Russia’s conspiracy machine, things are more complicated than they seem. A new book demonstrates the pitfalls of conspiracy thinking.

By Maxim Alyukov

/ 7 Sep 2018

How does Russian TV propaganda really work?

New research shows that Russian state media’s influence is by no means total. Most people are capable of watching television news critically — provided they’re given the opportunity to do so. Русский

By Maxim Alyukov

/ 8 May 2017