Policy & Data
Fifteen commissioned research projects for Kazakhstani government bodies, an international development bank and two universities. I have edited roughly twenty policy papers at Kazakhstan Sociology Lab and MIND, and managed the second wave of the Russian Crime Victimization Survey.
Data & code
Russian Crime Victimization Survey (RCVS). Three waves (2018, 2021, 2024), 42,572 pooled respondents, a 3,456-person longitudinal panel, and a pooled cross-sectional dataset released openly on SSRN. I managed wave 2 end to end — questionnaire design, RDD sampling and stratification, CATI fieldwork, data curation — and served on the team for wave 3. It remains the only repeated nationwide victimization survey in Russia.
researchdata.kz. A data hub for social scientists working on Kazakhstan, launched June 2026 through Kazakhstan Sociology Lab. Two datasets are deposited under my authorship:
- Serebrennikov, D. Spatial Data on Socio-Economic Characteristics in Almaty. researchdata.kz, 2026. — researchdata.kz/data/218
- Serebrennikov, D., Kalkanbay, S. Register of Renamings of Administrative-Territorial Units and Constituent Parts of Settlements in the Republic of Kazakhstan, 1990–2026. researchdata.kz, 2026. — researchdata.kz/data/162
Code. Replication data and code for the Russian Politics article, “Surveillance as Governance: Policing Effectiveness and Political Control in the Moscow AI Experiment” — github.com/serebrennikov-dmtr/Surveillance-as-Governance.Paper-Repo.
2025
AI for the Analysis of Citizens’ Appeals (eOtinish)
Embedding-based topic similarity for a national appeals system; delivered as a dashboard.
Dynamics of Criminal Victimization in Russia, 2018–2024
Readability of the Legal Acts of Kazakhstan
Readability of Legal Acts: International Practice and Standard-Setting
Fatal Road Traffic Accidents in Kazakhstan
2024
Identifying Risks in the Administrative Practice of State Bodies
Inspection and Supervision in Kazakhstan, 2023: The End of the Moratorium
Crime Place Never Changed? Spatial Distribution of Non-Serious Theft and Violent Crime in Astana and Almaty
Testing Near-Repeat Victimization Theory in Astana and Almaty
First application of the near-repeat design in Central Asia; underlies the Journal of Criminal Justice article.
Domestic Violence in Kazakhstan: Administrative Offence Data, 2020–2024
2021–2023
Effectiveness of Facial Recognition for Crime Clearance in Moscow
Public Security in Partnership with Society, 2024–2028 (policy concept)
Advisory only, not an author of the concept itself.
Assessment of Criminal Victimization in Russia, 2021
Earlier
Should the Weight of a Pure Narcotic Substance Be Equated with the Weight of the Mixture Containing It? Evidence from Four European Countries
With V. Kudryavtsev and Yu. Kuzmina.