The Russian Legislative Corpus

A comprehensive and up-to-date collection of Russian legislation considered a'gold standard' does not exist. From a legal perspective, the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s and the new Russian statehood became a starting point for collecting legal documents. While not every Soviet-era legal act was repealed, most had been completely abolished. We collect all federal regulations covering 1991 to 2023 and prepared these texts for linguistic analysis. We discuss the place of the present corpus among the related corpora (Section 2). We also provide a brief institutional context of the Russian promulgation routine (Section 3) and descriptive statistics (Section 4) and describe our processing pipeline (Sections 5, 6, 7).