Russian Federal Legislation Corpus 1991-2025

304,382 texts of Russian primary and secondary legislation, containing 194,425,905 tokens, cover federal regulations and acts from 1991 to 2025. The corpus includes laws, presidential decrees, and government regulations, provided by the author irlspbru in two versions for raw text and linguistic analysis.

Use Cases

• Train a named entity recognition model on the 304,382 legal texts to identify entities like 'President of RF' and 'government' within federal acts.
• Analyze the temporal distribution of the 304,382 texts to track legislative activity trends across the 1991-2025 period.
• Perform linguistic analysis on the tokenized version of the corpus to study syntactic patterns in Russian legal language.
• Build a text classification system to categorize the 304,382 documents by type, such as laws, decrees, or regulations, using metadata.

Strengths

• Contains 304,382 distinct legal texts, providing a large-scale resource for legal NLP.
• Covers a 34-year time range from 1991 to 2025, enabling longitudinal analysis of Russian legislation.
• Includes two data versions (original and linguistically preprocessed) catering to different research needs.

Limitations

• The dataset's scope is limited to non-secret federal acts, excluding regional, local, or classified legislation which may create a geographic and topical bias.
• Sample data and specific column structure are unavailable, making initial data exploration and schema understanding difficult prior to download.

Provenance

Source

Primary and secondary legislation from the Russian Federation.

Collection Method

Corpus collection of published federal regulations and acts.

Time Range

1991 to 2025

Freshness

Data includes texts published as of December 31, 2025, and the dataset record was last updated on February 22, 2026.

Geography

Russian Federation