Do you want to learn everything about digitalization in Russia, or about how to use digital sources and methods for studying Russia? Are you seeking to broaden your horizon beyond the US and Europe and the English-language space? Look no further: *The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies*, edited by Daria Gritsenko, Mariëlle Wijermars and Mikhail Kopotev, has just been published and is available in Open Access! 32 chapters, over 600 pages, written by more than 40 contributors based in Russia, Europe and the US. The handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in the context of ubiquitous connectivity and accounts for the political and societal responses to digitalization. In addition, it answers practical and methodological questions in handling Russian data and a wide array of digital methods. The volume makes a timely intervention in our understanding of the changing field of Russian Studies and is an essential guide for scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying Russia today. To access the book, please visit the publisher's website: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030428549 *Table of Contents* 1. Digital Russia Studies: An introduction *Studying Digital Russia* 2. The digitalization of Russian politics and political participation 3. E-Government in Russia: Plans, reality, and future outlook 4. Russia’s Digital Economy Program: An effective strategy for digital transformation? 5. Law and digitization in Russia 6. Personal data protection in Russia 7. Cyber-crime and punishment: Security, information war, and the future of RuNet 8. Digital activism in Russia: The evolution and forms of online participation in an authoritarian state 9. Digital journalism: Toward a theory of journalistic practice in the twenty-first century 10. Digitalization of Russian education: Changing actors and spaces of governance 11. Digitalization of religion in Russia: adjusting preaching to new formats, channels and platforms 12. Doing Gender Online: Digital Spaces for Identity Politics 13. Digitalization of consumption in Russia: Online platforms, regulations and consumer behavior 14. Digital Art: A sourcebook of ideas for conceptualizing new practices, networks and modes of self-expression 15. From Samizdat to New Sincerity. Digital literature on the Russian-language Internet 16. Run Runet Runaway: The transformation of the Russian Internet as a cultural-historical Object *Digital sources and methods * 17. Corpora in text-based Russian studies 18. RuThes Thesaurus for Natural Language Processing 19. Social media based research of interpersonal and group communication in Russia 20. Digitizing archives in Russia: Epistemic sovereignty and Its challenges in the Digital Age 21. Affordances of digital archives: The case of the Prozhito Archive of personal diaries 22 Open government data in Russia 23. Topic modeling in Russia: current approaches and issues in methodology 24. Topic modeling Russian history 25. Studying ideational change in Russian politics with topic models and word embeddings 26. Deep Learning for the Russian language 27. Shifting the norm: the case of academic plagiarism detection 28. Automatic sentiment analysis of texts: The case of Russian 29. Social network analysis in Russian literary studies 30. Tweeting Russian politics: studying on-line political dynamics 31. The state of the art: Surveying digital Russian art history 32. Geospatial data analysis in Russia’s geoweb