Blog of Denis Karagodin in English
An academic article titled “STEPINQUEST®: Narrative as Action — An Investigative Narrative Form” has been developed from the STEPINQUEST® White Paper.
The article defines STEPINQUEST® as an investigative narrative genre in which narration operates as a form of action, integrating evidence, narrative, and institutional engagement into a continuous process.
The manuscript has been submitted to an international peer-reviewed journal and is currently under review.
Today I published the STEPINQUEST® White Paper.
This document introduces a narrative genre developed through more than a decade of sustained conceptual and practical work. It emerges from direct engagement with complex structures of evidence, narrative form, and institutional processes, and from a long effort to understand how investigation can operate within these structures — and act upon them.
STEPINQUEST® is defined as an investigative narrative genre. It also establishes a conceptual, methodological, and operational framework through which this genre can be applied in practice. In STEPINQUEST®, narration does not merely represent events, but functions as an active component of the investigative process itself.
Continue reading The STEPINQUEST® White Paper ReleasedToday I published the KARAGODIN® Investigation White Paper.
This document consolidates over a decade of investigative work into a structured methodological framework.
It presents the ontological foundations, logic, principles, terminology, and ethical framework of the KARAGODIN® Investigation, now articulated in English for a global audience.
The white paper formalizes the investigation not only as an empirical project, but as a reproducible methodological system — applicable to the study of historical responsibility, institutional processes, and state violence, and establishing a methodological basis for processes of accountability and the structural resolution of historical responsibility.
This release marks a transition of the project into a new phase of institutional and conceptual development.
I welcome researchers, journalists, historians, legal scholars, and all interested readers to explore and engage with this work.
The document is available here:
https://karagodin.com/whitepaper/investigation
Published March 27, 2026.
In 2026, I plan to submit proposals to present at the annual conferences of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), scheduled for early 2027. If my proposals are accepted, I will present research based on the KARAGODIN® Investigation (Расследование КАРАГОДИНА®) project.
If you are interested in collaboration or work on related topics – particularly in connection with these conferences – please feel free to reach out. There may be opportunities for meaningful collaboration.
I would also like to note that I remain committed to pursuing a PhD in the United States and would greatly appreciate any guidance or support in that direction.
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