Review of Tomila Lankina (2018): Lankina Russian Protest-Event Dataset

The Lankina Russian protest event dataset (LaruPED) is a project by Tomila Lankina that covers a wide range of protests across Russia in the time period from March 2007 to December 2016. It defines a protest as: "Citizens' public expression of dissent or critique" (Lankina 2019) and is thus not imposing a necessary number of participants as a prerequisite for a protest to be included in this dataset. The unit of analysis in the LaruPED dataset is the event-day-location, meaning events that occur in multiple locations are coded as separate entries. In total the dataset contains 5.824 coded protests (Lankina 2019). As of summer 2024, it is unclear whether work on the data collection is continuing. The data review includes a link to the LSE Research Online website from which the dataset, as well as additional information about the dataset in the form of a codebook and a descriptive text, is available for download.