Founded in 1981, Russian Studies (a bimonthly journal) is an academic journal under the supervision of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and edited and published by the Center for Russian Studies of East China Normal University (a key research base of the Ministry of Education in humanities and social sciences). It has been recognized as a double-effect journal of China Journal Formation, a core journal of Chinese humanities and social sciences, and a journal included in Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI).