The Journal of Russian Studies (RUSAD) adheres to the open access principle, allowing for improved sharing and accessibility of scientific works on a national and international level, and, as an open access journal, provides free access to its contents. To this end, the Journal of Russian Studies (RUSAD) endorses the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which was adopted on September 12, 2012. RUSAD allows its publications to be utilized for non-commercial purposes in compliance with the provisions of this initiative. To safeguard the authors’ publication rights, RUSAD has licensed the published works under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: