| Three dilemmas of hybrid regime governance: Russia from Putin to Putin N Petrov, M Lipman, HE Hale Post-Soviet Affairs 30 (1), 1-26, 2014 | 271 | 2014 |
| Between dictatorship and democracy: Russian post-communist political reform M McFaul, N Petrov, A Ryabov Carnegie Endowment, 2010 | 196 | 2010 |
| A survey of democracy in Russia's regions KM McMann, NV Petrov Post-Soviet Geography and Economics 41 (3), 155-182, 2000 | 116 | 2000 |
| Overmanaged democracy in Russia: Governance implications of hybrid regimes N Petrov, M Lipman, H Hale CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2010 | 94 | 2010 |
| Gulag:(glavnoje upravlenije lagerej): 1917-1960 AI Kokurin, NV Petrov Meždunarodnyj fond" Demokratija", 2000 | 83 | 2000 |
| Four Russias: Human potential and social differentiation of russian regions and cities N Zubarevich Russia 2025: Scenarios for the Russian future, 67-85, 2013 | 74 | 2013 |
| Russia’s role in the Orange Revolution N Petrov, A Ryabov Revolution in orange: The origins of Ukraine’s democratic breakthrough, 145-164, 2006 | 74 | 2006 |
| Regional models of democratic development N Petrov Between Dictatorship and Democracy, 239-267, 2004 | 74 | 2004 |
| Seven Faces of Putin's Russia: Federal Districts as the New Level of State—territorial Composition N Petrov Security Dialogue 33 (1), 73-91, 2002 | 68 | 2002 |
| What the elections tell us M McFaul, N Petrov J. Democracy 15, 20, 2004 | 65 | 2004 |
| Putin and the Regions N Petrov CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2012 | 63 | 2012 |
| Ethno-territorial conflicts and boundaries in the former Soviet Union VA Kolossov, JC Dewdney, O Glezer, N Petrov Ibru Press, 1992 | 57 | 1992 |
| Ethno-territorial conflicts and boundaries in the former Soviet Union VA Kolossov, JC Dewdney, O Glezer, N Petrov Ibru Press, 1992 | 57 | 1992 |
| Reiting demokratichnosti regionov Moskovskogo tsentra Karnegi: 10 let v stroyu N Petrov, A Titkov Moscow: Carnegie, 2013 | 56 | 2013 |
| Politicheskiy al’manakh Rossii 1997 M McFaul, N Petrov Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1998 | 51 | 1998 |
| From managed democracy to sovereign democracy: Putin’s regime evolution in 2005 N Petrov PONARS Policy Memo 396, 2005 | 43 | 2005 |
| Siloviki in Russian regions: new dogs, old tricks N Petrov The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies. Pipss. org, 2005 | 40 | 2005 |
| The geography of the 1989 elections of people's deputies of the USSR (preliminary results) AV Berezkin, VA Kolosov, ME Pavlovskaya, NV Petrov, LV Smirnyagin Soviet Geography 30 (8), 607-634, 1989 | 38 | 1989 |
| Specifics of infodemic in Russia: From whatsapp to the investigative committee AS Arkhipova, DА Radchenko, IV Kozlova, BS Peigin, MV Gavrilova, ... Monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniya: ekonomicheskie i sotsial'nye peremeny …, 2020 | 35* | 2020 |
| Regional governors under the dual power of Medvedev and Putin N Petrov Journal of communist studies and transition politics 26 (2), 276-305, 2010 | 33 | 2010 |
