PhD candidate in Sociology (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Research interests: religiosity, survey experiments, war, evolutionary sociology culture
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Selected publications:● Karakai, D., Moskotina R., Brik T., & Dembitskyi, S. (2026). Bridging the Gap: A Mediation Analysis of War Exposure, Feeling of Insecurity and Religiosity. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.70037 ● Karakai, D., & Moskotina, R. (2025). Existential upheavals: Tracing war’s immediate effect on individual religiosity in Ukraine. Social Compass, 72(1), 66–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686241311421 ● Karakai, D., Moskotina, R. (2024). Religious involvement over time: Assessing measurement invariance of the Religious Involvement scale in Ukraine. Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing, 4, 16–30. https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2024.04.096 ● Karakai D., Hatsko V. (2024). Perspective(s) of R. Inglehart’s Theory of Evolutionary Modernization: Analysis of Change in Religiosity in Ukraine during the War. Sociology Theory Methods Marketing, 1, 93–10. https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2024.01.093

PhD in Sociology (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Research interests: Quantitative data analysis, agent-based modeling, measurement of educational service quality, subjective well-being, psychological distress, online surveys
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Selected publications:● Moskotina, R. (2025). Bridging Beliefs and Behavior: How Self-Efficacy and Learning Efforts Translate Locus of Control into Academic Performance. Sociological Studios, 1(26), 122–128. https://doi.org/10.29038/2306-3971-2025-01-34-34 ● Dembitskyi, S., Sydorov, M., Moskotina, R., Zlobina, O., Kovalska, Y. (2025). Effect of war and displacement on psychological distress: a study of Ukrainian citizens. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 38(1), 137–151. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2025.2467836 ● Karakai, D., & Moskotina, R. (2025). Existential upheavals: Tracing war’s immediate effect on individual religiosity in Ukraine. Social Compass, 72(1), 66–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686241311421 ● Karakai, D., Moskotina, R. (2024). Religious involvement over time: Assessing measurement invariance of the Religious Involvement scale in Ukraine. Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing, 4, 16–30. https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2024.04.096

PhD candidate in Sociology (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Research interests: political trust, local governance, decentralization reform, education and science policy
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Selected publications:● Rabinovych, M., Brik, T., Darkovich, A., Hatsko, V., & Savisko, M. (2025). Ukrainian decentralization under martial law: challenges for regional and local self-governance. Post-Soviet Affairs, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2025.2520167 ● Rabinovych, M., Brik, T., Piddubnyi, I., Darkovich, A., Savisko, M., Hatsko, V., & Tytiuk, S. (2024). Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine. East European Politics, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2024.2435817● Keudel, O., Hatsko, V., Darkovich, A., Huss, O. (2024). Local Democracy and Resilience in Ukraine: Learning from Communities’ Crisis Response in War. URL: https://icld.se/wp-content/uploads/ICLD_ResearchReport_33_2024-web.pdf ● Hatsko, V. (2024). What Determines Trust in Local Governance During the War in Ukraine? Sociological Studios, 2(25), 14–20. https://doi.org/10.29038/2306-3971-2024-02-43-43

Bachelor in Sociology (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Research interests: quantitative data analysis, electoral sociology, political trust, wars and conflicts, demography
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Bachelor’s student in Sociology (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Research interests: research on extremism and terrorism, postcolonial theory, social inequality, gender and feminist theory, statistics and data analysis
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