Foma

Foma is a Russian corpus compiled from the online portal of the Russian Orthodox magazine Foma (foma.ru), excluding Q&A content; collected in December 2025.

Source

foma.ru (non-Q&A content)

About the portal (foma.ru)

The corpus source portal foma.ru is part of the Orthodox media project “Foma”, which positions itself as “Orthodox media for those who doubt” and aims to explain Orthodox faith and church life in a modern, accessible language.

Popularity and reach

The portal reports about 2.5 million monthly unique readers for foma.ru.
The project reports a total monthly audience reach of about 17 million users across all platforms (as of December 2025).
“Foma” is described as one of the largest Orthodox media outlets in Russia and is reported to be in the TOP‑3 Runet web projects writing about religion in general.

Editorial and organization

Creators: journalists Vladimir Legoyda and Vladimir Gurbolikov.
Founder/publisher: the “Foma Center” foundation (Фонд «Фома Центр»).
Print edition editor-in-chief: V. R. Legoyda; portal foma.ru editor-in-chief: V. A. Gurbolikov.
The project is not an official organ of the Russian Orthodox Church, but it cooperates with clergy and church structures; the magazine has the mark “Approved by the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church”.

Rubrics and thematic focus

“Foma” describes its specialization as cultural and educational. The publication’s typical focus includes religion, society, culture, history, and related public issues, while it avoids discussing day-to-day secular politics.

Since when online

The project states it has been present online since the early 2000s.
A dedicated website with the address foma.ru is stated to have appeared in 2006.

Significance

The magazine started as a print publication in 1996 and evolved from a black-and-white almanac into a multi-format media project.
It is included in the list of socially significant publications for subscription campaigns (reported since 2016).

Document structure

<doc> metadata: doc.language, doc.author, doc.status, doc.title, doc.pubyear, doc.source, doc.url, doc.rubric, doc.text_id.
Sentence segmentation: <s> (attribute: s.id).

Linguistic annotation

The corpus is annotated in the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework using UDPipe (lemmatization and UPOS tagging; morphological features in UD FEATS format). The tagger/lemmatizer model is based on UD Russian SynTagRus.

Tagset and annotation notes: corpora.fisun.org/corpus-pages/tagset.html.

Corpus attributes

Positional attributes: word, lemma, pos, morph, lc.

Size (current index)

Item	Count
Tokens	29,890,878
Words	23,434,351
Sentences (`<s>`)	1,877,821
Documents (`<doc>`)	31,744

Lexicon sizes

Attribute	Count
`word`	687,581
`lemma`	374,911
`pos`	17
`morph`	553
`lc`	607,073

Text types (metadata inventory)

The corpus defines <doc> with 9 attributes and <s> with 1 attribute (s.id).

Structure	Attribute	Distinct values
`<doc>`	`doc.author`	529
`<doc>`	`doc.language`	1
`<doc>`	`doc.pubyear`	5,576
`<doc>`	`doc.rubric`	373
`<doc>`	`doc.source`	1
`<doc>`	`doc.status`	200
`<doc>`	`doc.text_id`	31,744
`<doc>`	`doc.title`	31,647
`<doc>`	`doc.url`	31,744
`<s>`	`s.id`	1

How to cite

Fisun, Roman. 2025. Foma: Russian Orthodox magazine corpus. Compiled from foma.ru (data collected in December 2025). Available at: https://corpora.fisun.org/ (corpus name: foma). Accessed: <YYYY-MM-DD>.

Software

NoSketch Engine (corpus query system): sketchengine.eu/nosketch-engine
UDPipe (tokenization/lemmatization/tagging): ufal.mff.cuni.cz/udpipe

Terms of use

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Contact

Maintainer: roman.fisun@ur.de