This joint effort by the Census Project and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology in Moscow (Valery Tishkov, director) has formed an international team of American, Russian, and French scholars who monitored and are now analyzing the October 2002 Russian Census, the first since the end of the Soviet period. Researchers were deployed in more than 20 regions of the Russian Federation during the censustaking. The team met at the Institute of Ethnology in October 2002 following the census and again at the Watson Institute in April 2003 to discuss their draft papers. They presented initial findings during five panels at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention at Columbia University, also in April 2003.
Other researchers:
Watson Institute: Juliette Cadiot and Lisa Koriuchkina
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow: Elena Filippova, Olga Kulbachevskaya, Sergei Sokolovsky, and Valery Stepanov
United States: Jennifer Barrett and Cynthia Buckley, University of Texas at Austin; Dmitry Gorenburg, CNA Associates; Yoshiko Herrera, Harvard University; Ward Kingkade, US Census Bureau; Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
France: Alain Blum and Catherine Gousseff, INED; Samuel Fanon-Marie, Médecins du Monde; Xavier Le Torrivelec, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Frédérique Longuet-Marx and Jean Radvanyi, Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales; Aude Merlin, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Research assistant: William Terrin and Jenny Asarnow