Victory Day Presidential Addresses Word Frequency and Military Spending

2000-2025 Russian Federation Presidential Victory Day addresses provide word frequency data and associated military expenditure figures. The dataset includes word counts, percentage of speech for word categories, and SIPRI military spending data in fixed USD 2024. It was created by Helen Ingram Browne for an independent research project and published via Harvard Dataverse in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlation between the '%' column (percentage of commemorative language) and the 'share' column (percentage of budget spent on military).
• Track frequency of specific military-related Russian words over time using the word frequency data from the second file.
• Model the relationship between the '$' column (scaled military expenditure) and the frequency of key thematic word categories.

Strengths

• Covers a 25-year time range (2000-2025) for longitudinal analysis.
• Integrates textual analysis data with external SIPRI Military Expenditure Database metrics.

Limitations

• Sample size is unclear, with a 'smaller sample' noted for Russian word validation data.
• 2020 speech is an exception from June 24th, not Victory Day, creating a temporal inconsistency.
• Word list includes variations (italicized) which may require normalization for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Speeches by Russian presidents, SIPRI Military Expenditure Database (2024).

Collection Method

Manual compilation and coding of word frequencies from speeches, paired with SIPRI data.

Time Range

2000 to 2025 (with 2020 from June 24).

Freshness

Data current through 2025, with metadata last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Russian Federation.