Research, data, and primary sources on Russian-occupied Ukraine

Research on Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories. TOT Insights brings together analytical briefings, interactive data tools, primary source collections, and curated datasets — a research platform for evidence-based analysis of Russian occupation mechanisms, civilian entrapment, and accountability.

Mariupol, April 2026 · fieldwork documentation
48Research outputs 2Databases +Further resources 8Interactive tools 82Primary source documents
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Governance
How Russia administers the territory it has seized, and who runs it.
Economics
How Russia turns occupied territory into a source of value, and who profits.
Civilian Life
What occupation is actually like for the people who stay.
Identity, Culture and Religion
What Russia tries to erase, and what it installs in its place.
Education and Militarisation
How Russia uses schooling and youth programmes to reshape a generation.
Coercion, Resistance and Security
How control is enforced, how Ukrainians resist, and the surveillance between them.
Information Space
How Russia controls what people can know, say and believe.
Accountability and Legal
The occupation as a body of crimes, and the effort to document them.
Latest from the databases
Database  ·  DB-OFF
Occupation Officials Database
1,085 individuals serving in administrative and governmental roles across Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories, searchable by name, territory, level, status, and origin.
1,085 entries  ·  Accountability and Legal →
Database  ·  DB-SAN
Sanctions Database
2,306 sanctioned individuals and entities across seven jurisdictions - Australia, EU, Japan, Switzerland, UK, US, and Ukraine - searchable by name, type, territory, and jurisdiction.
2,306 entries  ·  7 jurisdictions →
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Institutional affiliations: Centre for Statecraft and National Security, King's College London, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War.

Research partners: Curia Lab, Центр вивчення окупації, Institute for the Study of States of Exception (ISSE), The Institute for Conflict Studies and Analysis of Russia (IKAR).